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• A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Greatness, Destiny, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Literary and political addresses”

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Tests, Common

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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.

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  Stars, Truth, Earth

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

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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.

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  Truth, Memories, Men

  James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind The Curtain”

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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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Strong, Blue, Sky

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

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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!

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  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.

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  Love, Love Life, Bless

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

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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.

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  Heart, Musical, Strings

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

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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.

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  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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• 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!

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  Beautiful, Heart, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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

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  Smart, Blow, Irritation

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

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

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  Destiny, Men, Thinking

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

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  Tradition, Eternal Life, Originals

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

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• A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

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  Criticism, Weapons, Weak

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

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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.

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  Time, Men, Needs

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

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

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  Long, Spirit, Century

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

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

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  Light, Climbing, Long

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

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• In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Time, Fate

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The poetical works”

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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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