James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 6

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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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• 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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• 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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• O reputation! dearer far than life.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reputation

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Character

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

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

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  Mind, Left Alone, Dread

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Winter, Long

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.21

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• Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

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  Evil, Inward, Driven

  James Russell Lowell, Maria F. Rosetti (1872). “Review of The Shadow of Dante”, p.201

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• There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

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  Self, Sensual, Life Is

  James Russell Lowell (1872). “Among my Books: Contents: Dryden. Witchcraft. Shakespeare once more. New England two centuries ago. Lessing. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists”, p.363

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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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• The eye is the notebook of the poet.

  James Russell Lowell

  Notebook, Eye, Literature

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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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• 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.

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  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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