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James Russell Lowell Quotes

«New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth, They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth»
«I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest»
«Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.»
«They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.»
«Every person born into this world their work is born with them.»
«Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.»
«The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.»
«Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.»
«The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.»
«It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.»

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