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James Russell Lowell: It is the vain endeavour to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn…

It is the vain endeavour to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

In today’s wordsHistory is strewn with broken purposes and half-finished lives because people kept trying in vain to make themselves into something they're not.

James Russell LowellCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources, compiled by James Wood, 1893

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