James Russell Lowell Quotes

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  One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

  James Russell Lowell

  Educational, Knowledge, Understanding

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.223

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• What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Men, Funeral

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

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• Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

  James Russell Lowell

  Power, Self, Restraint

  James Russell Lowell (1891). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”

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• The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1780, Delphi Classics

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• No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

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  Mud, Soil

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.856, Delphi Classics

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• The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

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  Real, Vehemence, Greater

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• All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  1867 'Rousseau and the Sentimentalists', in the North American Review, Jul.

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• Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,
  In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;
  Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Light

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

  James Russell Lowell

  Compromise, Poor, Umbrella

  1884 'On Democracy', speech in Birmingham, 6 Oct.

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• Folks never understand the folks they hate.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Happiness, Success

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.523, Delphi Classics

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• Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

  James Russell Lowell

  Good Morning, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

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• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

  James Russell Lowell

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Kindness

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.2

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• Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Ideas, Long

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• Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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  Wisdom, Blessed

  "His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis in the United States of America during the winter of 1871-72", Riverside Press, 1872.

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• Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

  James Russell Lowell

  Friendship, Thank You, Giving

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.122

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• A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

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  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.161

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• It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

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  Ignorance, Intelligent, Fool

  James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers”

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• Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

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  Book, Reading, Mind

  1849 'Nationality in Literature', in the North American Review, Jul.

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• Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,-
  Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown,
  Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Forever, Shadow

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Brain, Easy

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• A wise man travels to discover himself.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Travel

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Literary essays”

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• As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

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  Running, Time, Reality

  1887 'Sixty-Eighth Birthday'.

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• The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.

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  Taken, Men, Practice

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: Six Essays”, p.339

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• The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' -
  a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

  James Russell Lowell

  Rose, Common Sense, Cabbage

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.250

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• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Party

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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