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

  James Russell Lowell

  Believe, Curiosity, Principles

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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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• From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

  James Russell Lowell

  Evil, Next, Embryos

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.548, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Rivers, Heaven

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.166

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• Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Pride, Weakness

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1818, Delphi Classics

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• The ash her purple drops forgivingly
  And sadly, breaking not the general hush;
  The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea,
  Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush;
  All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze,
  Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Rain, Sunset

  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.70, tredition

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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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• The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Believe, Writing

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.162

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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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• 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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• Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.

  James Russell Lowell

  Eye, Doors, House

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.76

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• But civlyzation doos git forrid
  Sometimes upon a powder-cart.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sometimes, Powder, Carts

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.208

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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.

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  Passion, Men, Political

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the natural way of living.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Blue, Sky

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.3

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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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