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• Not a deed would he do,
  Not a word would he utter,
  Till he's weighed its relation
  To plain bread and butter.

  James Russell Lowell

  Food, Cooking, Deeds

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• Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hero, Slave, Easy

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.163

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• My soul is not a palace of the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Soul, Palaces

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

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• Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Past, History

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.402

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• Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

  James Russell Lowell

  Islands, Promise, Religion

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.109

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• Many make the household but only one the home.

  James Russell Lowell

  Home, Household

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.397

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• Here come the hum the golden bees
  Underneath full blossomed trees,
  At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.

  James Russell Lowell

  Flower, Glowing, Tree

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.7

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• In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

  James Russell Lowell

  Destiny, Brain, Scales

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• Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

  James Russell Lowell

  Brother, Men, People

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.49

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• Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.178

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• The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Path

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.174

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• Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.

  James Russell Lowell

  Passion, Men, Political

  James Russell Lowell (2015). “Abraham Lincoln”, p.10, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

  James Russell Lowell

  Woods, Longing, Silent

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• It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Style, Mind, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.88

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• Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Light, Tradition, Crime

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

  James Russell Lowell

  Believe, Curiosity, Principles

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• To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

  James Russell Lowell

  Youth, Young, Gifts Of Life

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.277

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• There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

  James Russell Lowell

  Boston, Rooms, Newspapers

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.397

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• Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, Sunset, Snow

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.98

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• To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hate, Lying, Love Is

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.111

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• What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Eye, Angel

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.55

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• Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Men, Citizens

  'On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves' (1854)

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• One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Break Through, Style

  James Russell Lowell (2015). “Abraham Lincoln”, p.22, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

  James Russell Lowell

  Failure, Long, Tails

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.256

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• It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

  James Russell Lowell

  Book, Practice, Class

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1849). “The North American Review”, p.212

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