James Russell Lowell Quotes

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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.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Light

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Men, Intuition

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Roots, Suffering

  James Russell Lowell (1897). “Literary and political addresses”

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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

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• Silence is sorrow's best food.

  James Russell Lowell

  Silence, Sorrow, Best Food

  James Russell Lowell (1898). “Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole”, p.438, Library of Alexandria

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• What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Men, Funeral

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

  James Russell Lowell

  Compromise, Poor, Umbrella

  1884 'On Democracy', speech in Birmingham, 6 Oct.

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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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• 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.

  James Russell Lowell

  Good Morning, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

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• The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

  James Russell Lowell

  Real, Vehemence, Greater

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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.

  James Russell Lowell

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Kindness

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

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• Folks never understand the folks they hate.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Happiness, Success

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

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• With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sight, Spirit, Grows

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.87

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• Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

  James Russell Lowell

  Giving, Literature, Return

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.63

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Ideas, Long

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• Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Political, Democracy

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

  James Russell Lowell

  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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• Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

  James Russell Lowell

  Memories, Attention, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.595, Delphi Classics

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Brain, Easy

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• Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

  James Russell Lowell

  Writing, Night, Two

  James Russell Lowell, “For An Autograph”

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• Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beauty, Sweet, Eye

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.51

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