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• Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

  James Russell Lowell

  Archer, Fate, White

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.400

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Heart, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• It is right precious to behold
  The first long surf of climbing light
  Flood all the thirsty east with gold.

  James Russell Lowell

  Light, Climbing, Long

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.78

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• Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

  James Russell Lowell

  Long, Spirit, Century

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.384

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• God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

  James Russell Lowell

  Time, Men, Needs

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1776, Delphi Classics

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• There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

  James Russell Lowell

  Tradition, Eternal Life, Originals

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.146

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• A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.

  James Russell Lowell

  Smart, Blow, Irritation

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.115

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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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• Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Memories, Men

  James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind The Curtain”

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• Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like
  A star new-born that drops into its place
  And which, once circling in its placid round,
  Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.

  James Russell Lowell

  Stars, Truth, Earth

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”, p.175

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• All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.

  James Russell Lowell

  Song, Bird, Crow

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1661, Delphi Classics

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• Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

  James Russell Lowell

  Gold, Wealth, Virtue

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

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• The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

  James Russell Lowell

  Winter, Swans, Snow

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

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• Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Suffering, Woe

  James Russell Lowell (1869). “Under the Willows, and Other Poems”, p.236

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• If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Writing, Waiting, Right Time

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “Letters”

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• Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wine, Vintage, Twenties

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.426

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• That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Sentiments, Pernicious

  James Russell Lowell (1898). “Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole”, p.521, Library of Alexandria

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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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