James Russell Lowell Quotes

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  One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

  James Russell Lowell

  Educational, Knowledge, Understanding

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.223

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• All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  1867 'Rousseau and the Sentimentalists', in the North American Review, Jul.

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• One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

  James Russell Lowell

  Temptation, Philosopher, Metaphysics

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.119

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• Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

  James Russell Lowell

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Addiction

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.416

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• As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Time, Reality

  1887 'Sixty-Eighth Birthday'.

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• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Lying, Different Faces

  James Russell Lowell (1886). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

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• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

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  Funny, Truth, Agreement

  James Russell Lowell (1887). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

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• The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Brain, Easy

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• Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Eye, Voice

  James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers”

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• Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

  James Russell Lowell

  Friendship, Thank You, Giving

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.122

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• Folks never understand the folks they hate.

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  Life, Happiness, Success

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.523, Delphi Classics

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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Literature, Sincere

  James Russell Lowell (1877). “Among My Books”

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• Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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  Wisdom, Blessed

  "His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis in the United States of America during the winter of 1871-72", Riverside Press, 1872.

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• The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' -
  a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

  James Russell Lowell

  Rose, Common Sense, Cabbage

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.250

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• Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Law, Atheism

  James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale (1902). “Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell”

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• The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.

  James Russell Lowell

  Taken, Men, Practice

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: Six Essays”, p.339

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• Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,-
  Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown,
  Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

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  Truth, Forever, Shadow

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Mirrors, Promise

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.48

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• For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

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  Wisdom

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.386

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• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

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  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Kindness

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.2

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• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

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  Patience, Passion, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics

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• Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

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  Good Morning, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

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• The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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  Inspirational, Life, Change

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1780, Delphi Classics

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• Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

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  Grief, Joy, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.118

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• Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Book, Reading, Mind

  1849 'Nationality in Literature', in the North American Review, Jul.

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