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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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• Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

  James Russell Lowell

  God, Lifts, Console

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.446

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• We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

  James Russell Lowell

  Science, Thinking, Moral

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.116

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• Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Giving, Three, Charity

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.46, tredition

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• Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Destiny, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.234

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• Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.

  James Russell Lowell

  Strong, Blue, Sky

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.138

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• Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du
  Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

  James Russell Lowell

  Peace, Want, Shows

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.271

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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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• 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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• Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Love Life, Bless

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.105

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• Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Taste, Tongue

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.107

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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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• The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Musical, Strings

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.48

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• While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

  James Russell Lowell

  Good Life, Achievement, Feelings

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.358

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• God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.

  James Russell Lowell

  Weather, Gold, Lace

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Strength, Strong, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Literary and political addresses”

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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sacrifice, Reality, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.377

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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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• I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

  James Russell Lowell

  Knives, Mind, Democracy

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Letters, ed. by C. E. Norton”

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• The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life Lesson, Thinking, Sorrow

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• The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

  James Russell Lowell

  War, House, Mind

  1869 'On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners', in the Atlantic Monthly, Jan.

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• To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Tests, Common

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