James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 14

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

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  Genius, Tests, Common

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

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  War, House, Mind

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

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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.

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  Life Lesson, Thinking, Sorrow

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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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• It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

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  Broken, Purpose, Vain

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1503, Delphi Classics

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• Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

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  Ruins, Morality, Supremacy

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.3

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• There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

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  Heart, Soul, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.357

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• To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.

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  Ends, Lows

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.123

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• Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.

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  Hands, Play, Research

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• Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

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  Giving, Earth, Dross

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.117

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• Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.

  James Russell Lowell

  Powerful, Names, Long

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.232

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• The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

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  Failing, Intellect, Conscience

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.140

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• It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.

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  Heart, Forget Everything, Childhood

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.141

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• When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

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  Friends, Boys, Lamps

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.387

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• Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

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  Past, Men, Forever

  "The poetical works of John Keats. With a memoir, by James Russell Lowell" by John Keats, James Russell Lowell, New York: J. Miller, 1871.

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• In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

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  Loyalty, Ideas, Sublime

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Among my books”

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• Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

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  Plagiarism, Garments, Borrowed

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.69

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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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• A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

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  Weed, Flower, Eye

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

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• At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

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  Devil, Gold, Cost

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.282, Delphi Classics

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• The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

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  Real, Lying, Blessed

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1199, Delphi Classics

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• Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.

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  Men, Feelings, Degrees

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.326

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• The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

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  Materials

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

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• Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

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  Reading, Mean, Eye

  James Russell Lowell (1887). “Democracy and other Addresses”

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