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• His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Pity

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.168

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• To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

  James Russell Lowell

  Weed, Heart, Winning

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.113

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• Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mean, Liberty, May

  James Russell Lowell (1900). “The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...”

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• I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

  James Russell Lowell

  Believe, Belief, Interest

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.461, Delphi Classics

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• The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fate, Simple, Men

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• The child is not mine as the first was,
  I cannot sing it to rest,
  I cannot lift it up fatherly
  And bliss it upon my breast;
  Yet it lies in my little one's cradle
  And sits in my little one's chair,
  And the light of the heaven she's gone to
  Transfigures its golden hair.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Lying, Light

  "The Changeling". Poem by James Russell Lowell, 1879.

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• Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Memorial, Safe

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.770, Delphi Classics

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• Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Fate, Conniving

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.430

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• Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Truth, War

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.600, Delphi Classics

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• It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.

  James Russell Lowell

  Stars, Writing, Two

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.40

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• Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Heaven, Soul

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

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• Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Soul, Earth

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.583, Delphi Classics

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• Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

  James Russell Lowell

  Believe, Heaven, I Believe

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• In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

  James Russell Lowell

  Science, Age, Latter

  "Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels".

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• The one thing finished in this hasty world.

  James Russell Lowell

  World, Hasty, Finished

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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• Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, Snow, Mind

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.252

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• The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

  James Russell Lowell

  Idols, Idolatry, Worshippers

  James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy and Other Papers”

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• Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

  James Russell Lowell

  Women, Ems, Done

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.184

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• Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.

  James Russell Lowell

  Women, Earth

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.11

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• Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Heart, Blood

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

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• It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

  James Russell Lowell

  Song, Spring, Gun

  James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale (1902). “Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell”

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• The victory's in believing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Believe, Victory, Belief

  James Russell Lowell (1898). “Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole”, p.323, Library of Alexandria

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• Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

  James Russell Lowell

  Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.712, Delphi Classics

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• He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Crush, Christian, Spiritual

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

  James Russell Lowell

  Destiny, Men, Work Out

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

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