James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 10

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• Time makes ancient good uncouth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Onward And Upward, Ancient, Uncouth

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• Freedom needs all her poets; it is they
  Who give her aspirations wings,
  And to the wiser law of music sway
  Her wild imaginings.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Law, Wings

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.107

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• Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

  James Russell Lowell

  Loyalty, Bravery, May

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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• Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Sleep, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1853). “Poems”, p.220

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• It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Rights, Revolution

  "Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes".

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• Not as all other women are
  Is she that to my soul is dear;
  Her glorious fancies come from far,
  Beneath the silver evening star,
  And yet her heart is ever near.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Stars, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.6

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• The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thieves, Rust, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary and political addresses”

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Grief, Joy, Literature

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

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• Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  "The Works of James Russell Lowell".

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• Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

  James Russell Lowell

  Literature, World, Born

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• Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beauty, Men, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith, Color, Weather

  Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Discipline, Example, Literature

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• Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Anxiety, Tense

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• It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Doe, Genius, Literature

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• The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

  James Russell Lowell

  Destiny, Men, Thinking

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.530, Delphi Classics

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• What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

  James Russell Lowell

  Time, Book, Reading

  "Literary Essays, vol. I". Book by James Russell Lowell, 1864-1890.

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• A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Criticism, Weapons, Weak

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.56

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• The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Real, Men, Experience

  James Russell Lowell (1888). “The English Poets: Lessing, Rousseau: Essays”

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• He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.403

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• Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Flower, Simplicity

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Letters of James Russell Lowell”

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• May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, May, Fraud

  'Under the Willows' (1869) l. 21

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• He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Education, Work, Knowledge

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.132

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• All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thoughtful, Men, Originality

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• Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

  James Russell Lowell

  Two, Flesh, Spirit

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”, p.264

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