James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 13

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

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  Greatness, Destiny, Men

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

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

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  Knives, Mind, Democracy

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

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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.

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  Life, Destiny, Men

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

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

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  Strength, Strong, Men

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

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• All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

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  Ideas, Soul, Age

  James Russell Lowell, “An Incident In A Railroad Car”

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• He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

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  Giving, Gold, Duty

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

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• There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

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  Business, Advice, Risk

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1220, Delphi Classics

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• But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

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  Beautiful, Death, Sweet

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.861, Delphi Classics

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• Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

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  Death, Angel, Dying

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.202

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• Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.

  James Russell Lowell

  Writing, Lasts

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.639, Delphi Classics

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• All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reality, Government, Names

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

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• Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

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  Fall, Government, Democracy

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

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  Funny, Friendship, Meaningful

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

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• 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love; But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the Glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God.

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  Love, Eye, Angel

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• Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

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  Men, Soul, Eternity

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.244

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• Sorrow is the great idealizer.

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  Grief, Sorrow, Great Idea

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• The gift without the giver is rare.

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  Thank You, Generosity, Giving

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• Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

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  Love, Promise, Youth

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

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• Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Truth, Men

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• To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.

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  Dark, Men, Views

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

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  Snow, Tree, Pearls

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

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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.

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  Past, Towers, Looks

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

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• It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

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  Education, Destiny, America

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

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• Better to me the poor mans crust,
  Better the blessing of the poor,
  Though I turn me empty from his door;
  That is no true alms which the hand can hold;
  He gives nothing but worthless gold
  Who gives from a sense of duty;
  But he who gives a slender mite,
  And gives to that which is out of sight,
  That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty
  Which runs through all and doth all unite, -
  The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms,
  The heart outstretches its eager palms,
  For a god goes with it and makes it store
  To the soul that was starving in darkness before.

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  Running, Heart, Blessing

  James Russell Lowell, “The Vision Of Sir Launfal”

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