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Truth, Wrong

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

- James Russell Lowell

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The eye is the notebook of the poet.

- James Russell Lowell

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

- James Russell Lowell

Fate loves the fearless.

- James Russell Lowell

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

- James Russell Lowell

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

- James Russell Lowell

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

- James Russell Lowell

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If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

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