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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• Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ignorance, Tyrants, Slave

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.32

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• For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

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  Truth, Men, Naked

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.117

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• Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

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  Truth, Honesty, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.116

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

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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• True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

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  Memories, Knowledge, Mean

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• Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Knowing Who You Are, Blight

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

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  Life, Beautiful, Creativity

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

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  Friendship, Thank You, Giving

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

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• Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,
  In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;
  Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.

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  Truth, Men, Light

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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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.

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  Running, Time, Reality

  1887 'Sixty-Eighth Birthday'.

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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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• 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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• Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

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  Truth, Forever, Thrones

  "The Present Crisis" st. 8 (1845)

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• Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

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  Men, Ideas, Long

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• Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

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  Shadow, Watches, Breaking Silence

  James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis”

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• History is clarified experience.

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  History

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Literary and political addresses”

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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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• Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

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  Evil, Sides, Conflict

  James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis”

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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.

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  Taken, Men, Practice

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

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

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  Heart, Brain, Easy

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

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  Recovery, New Beginnings, Addiction

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

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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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• 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.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Forever, Shadow

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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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.

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  Rose, Common Sense, Cabbage

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

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