James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 12

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• Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Towers, Looks

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.294

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• The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Doe, World

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

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• Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.

  James Russell Lowell

  War, Heart, Sometimes

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• And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

  James Russell Lowell

  Snow, Tree, Pearls

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.379

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• There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

  James Russell Lowell

  Two, Speaks Out, Wish

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1871). “The North American Review”, p.196

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• Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

  James Russell Lowell

  Vision, Culture

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

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• A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sweet, World, Charity

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.40, Delphi Classics

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• It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.

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  Lasts, Sunny, Mood

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.61

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• [B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

  James Russell Lowell

  Literature, Lasts, Should

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.41

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• Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.

  James Russell Lowell

  Rain, Flower, Fall

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

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• My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.

  James Russell Lowell

  Crow, Prophecy, Grans

  James Russell Lowell (1890). “The Works of James Russell Lowell: Poetical works”

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• Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Taken, Cutting

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

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• The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

  James Russell Lowell

  Long, Desire, Moments

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.92

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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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• Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Country, Peace

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• These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

  James Russell Lowell

  Moon, Bed, Pearls

  'In a Copy of Omar Khayy m'

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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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• 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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• O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

  James Russell Lowell

  Change, Abiding, Visionaries

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.757, Delphi Classics

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• The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth.

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  Fall, Past, Thinking

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”, p.178

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• To genius life never grows commonplace.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Grows, Commonplace

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• And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Light, Choices, Forever

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fighting, Moon, Sea

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.8

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• Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His battle-song, - One quivering flash, One wildering crash, Followed by silence dead and dull, As if the cloud, let go, Leapt bodily below To whelm the earth in one mad overthrow, And then a total lull.

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  Letting Go, Song, Rain

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

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• Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it drop, and hear it from the leaves, All is so bodingly still.

  James Russell Lowell

  Rain, Weather, Tempest

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics

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