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• Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.

  James Russell Lowell

  Loneliness, Heart, Men

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

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• And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.

  James Russell Lowell

  Two, Race, Ease

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.806, Delphi Classics

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• It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Thinking, Mind

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.124

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• For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Naked

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.117

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• They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fear, Character, Speak

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.53

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• Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Flower, Evil

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.34

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• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Creativity, Play

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.138

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• Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

  James Russell Lowell

  Power, Men, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.356

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• There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, 4th Of July, Cinco De Mayo

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.”, p.25, tredition

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• Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Writing, Fit

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.162

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• All God's angels come to us disguised.

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  Inspirational, Angel, Guardian Angel

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.202

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• No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

  James Russell Lowell

  Work, Blessed, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.52

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• If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Alive, Tradition

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.310

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• Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

  The Biglow Papers, Second Series, "Ef I a song or two could make" l. 97 (1867)

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• Those who love are but one step from heaven.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Heaven, Steps

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.109

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• He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Progress, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.6

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• There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Sea, Pirate

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.157

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• Humbleness is always grace; always dignity

  James Russell Lowell

  Humility, Grace, Dignity

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

  James Russell Lowell

  Age, Needs, Poet

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fancy, Crystals, Emotion

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.252

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• Taste is the next gift to genius.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Taste, Next

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.53

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• Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Success, Fate, Wish

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.426

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• Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sides, Argument, Aspiration

  James Russell Lowell (1872). “Among my Books: Contents: Dryden. Witchcraft. Shakespeare once more. New England two centuries ago. Lessing. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists”, p.233

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• O reputation! dearer far than life.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reputation

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• With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Travel, Inheritance

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.172

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