James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 6

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• Fate loves the fearless.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fate, Thinking, Stay Positive

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.684, Delphi Classics

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• There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mind, Left Alone, Dread

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

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• Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

  James Russell Lowell

  Memories, Gymnastics, Intellectual

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.119

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• They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Two, Hatred

  James Russell Lowell (1849). “Poems”, p.206

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• Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.

  James Russell Lowell

  Believe, Imagination, Sensual

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1162, Delphi Classics

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• Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!

  James Russell Lowell

  God, Strong, Dark

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.713, Delphi Classics

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• The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fool, Results, Planets

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• They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Compromise, Sin

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• Idleness induces caprice.

  James Russell Lowell

  Caprice, Idleness

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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 withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

  James Russell Lowell

  Work, Blessed, Men

  'A Glance Behind the Curtain' (1844)

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• A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

  James Russell Lowell

  Birthday, Men, Apples

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• And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

  James Russell Lowell

  June, Perfect Days, Literature

  "The Vision of Sir Launfal" prelude to pt. 1, st. 5 (1848)

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• What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born.

  James Russell Lowell

  Christmas, Sweet, Mean

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

  James Russell Lowell

  Memories, Home, Gunpowder

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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• The eye is the notebook of the poet.

  James Russell Lowell

  Notebook, Eye, Literature

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• Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Bravery

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Soil, Born

  James Russell Lowell (1887). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

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• There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

  James Russell Lowell

  Destiny, Two, Weakness

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1204, Delphi Classics

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• The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Past, Historical

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.109

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• The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather; to the wise man it is the desired port where he moors his bark gladly, as in some quiet haven of the Fortunate Isles; it is the golden west into which his sun sinks, and, sinking, casts back a glory upon the leaden cloud-tack which had darkly besieged his day.

  James Russell Lowell

  Death, Wise, Country

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.111

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• Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Fear, Educational

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

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  Inspirational, Loneliness, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.32

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• Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ambition, Sublime, Lines

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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• Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!

  James Russell Lowell

  Regret, Hands, Desire

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.88

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• If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

  James Russell Lowell

  Funny, Humor, Tunnels

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