James Russell Lowell Quotes About Originality

Quotes about: Originality

• All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thoughtful, Men, Originality

• Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Originality, Human Nature

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.63

• 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

• Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Men, Forever

  "The poetical works of John Keats. With a memoir, by James Russell Lowell" by John Keats, James Russell Lowell, New York: J. Miller, 1871.

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin