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• The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' -
  a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

  James Russell Lowell

  Rose, Common Sense, Cabbage

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.250

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• The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Giving, Every Man

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

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• No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mud, Soil

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.856, Delphi Classics

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• Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,-
  Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown,
  Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Forever, Shadow

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Forever, Thrones

  "The Present Crisis" st. 8 (1845)

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• Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beauty, Sweet, Eye

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.51

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• The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.

  James Russell Lowell

  Taken, Men, Practice

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: Six Essays”, p.339

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• Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

  James Russell Lowell

  Power, Self, Restraint

  James Russell Lowell (1891). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”

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• Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

  James Russell Lowell

  Writing, Night, Two

  James Russell Lowell, “For An Autograph”

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• A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

  James Russell Lowell

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.161

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• Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

  James Russell Lowell

  Memories, Attention, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.595, Delphi Classics

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• With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sight, Spirit, Grows

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.87

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• It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ignorance, Intelligent, Fool

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

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• Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith, Men, Differences

  "Literary Essays, vol. II". Book by James Russell Lowell, 1870-1890.

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• Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

  James Russell Lowell

  Giving, Literature, Return

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.63

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• Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Political, Democracy

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• Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ignorance, Tyrants, Slave

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.32

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• Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Beautiful, Creativity

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• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

  James Russell Lowell

  Patience, Passion, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics

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• It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Presence Of Mind, Emergencies

  Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Eye, Voice

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

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• For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wisdom

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.386

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• Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Peace, Children

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• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Wisdom, Party

  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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• Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

  James Russell Lowell

  Happiness, Success, Character

  JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1871). “THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS.”, p.14

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