James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 4

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• The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Mirrors, Promise

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.48

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• Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Ocean, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.102

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• The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nurse, Soul, Solitude

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.54

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• The Holy Supper is kept, indeed,
  In whatso we share with anothers need;
  Not what we give, but what we share,
  For the gift without the giver is bare;
  Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
  Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Giving, Three, Needs

  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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• The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hypocrisy, Devil, Intolerance

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.83

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• Endurance is the crowning quality.

  James Russell Lowell

  Perseverance, Quality, Endurance

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.133

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• Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.

  James Russell Lowell

  Dream, Giving, Imagination

  James Russell Lowell (1888). “The English Poets Lessing: Rousseau”

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• Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.

  James Russell Lowell

  Vices, Stories, Half

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• In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Literature, Morality

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.61

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• Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  James Russell Lowell (1892). “Literary and political addresses”

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• History is clarified experience.

  James Russell Lowell

  History

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

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• Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Foundation, Sap

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1871). “The North American Review”, p.189

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• Stern men with empires in their brains.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Brain, Mind

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.272

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• The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

  James Russell Lowell

  Squares, Atmosphere, Sixteen

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• Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Knowing Who You Are, Blight

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fudge, Stealing, Vain

  James Russell Lowell (1911). “The poetical works”

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• To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

  James Russell Lowell

  Education, Knowledge, Desire

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• They have rights who dare maintain them.

  James Russell Lowell

  Rights, Liberty, Dare

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.67

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• Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

  James Russell Lowell

  Sweet, Eye, Years

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.73, Delphi Classics

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• That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Spring, Wide

  James Russell Lowell (1841). “A year's life”, p.159

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• Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Feet, Steps

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.93

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• The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today.
  
  The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Weed, Spring, Flower

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• I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Tree, Proportion

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• And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

  James Russell Lowell

  Dream, Dare To Dream, Daring

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• Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Eye, Clouds

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.118

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