James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 16

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• So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.

  James Russell Lowell

  Gun, Thinking, Causes

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• Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.

  James Russell Lowell

  Brave, Simplicity, Ridiculous

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.433, Delphi Classics

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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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• All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it

  James Russell Lowell

  Race, Government, World

  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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• The one thing finished in this hasty world.

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  World, Hasty, Finished

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

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Materials

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

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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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• Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then

  James Russell Lowell

  Afar, Skirts, Praise

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.67

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Weed, Flower, Eye

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

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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.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hands, Play, Research

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• Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Giving, Earth, Dross

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

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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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• 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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• An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Long, People

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

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.

  James Russell Lowell

  Firefly, Air, Tiny

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.923, Delphi Classics

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• The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.

  James Russell Lowell

  Firefly, Pulse, Meadows

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.16

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• The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fool, Safe, Common

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• This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

  James Russell Lowell

  Waiting, Glory

  James Russell Lowell (1859). “The Biglow papers”, p.47

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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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