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• Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Heaven, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.117

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• Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."

  James Russell Lowell

  Time, Queens, Brain

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.200

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• The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

  James Russell Lowell

  War, House, Mind

  1869 'On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners', in the Atlantic Monthly, Jan.

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• Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Truth, War

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.600, Delphi Classics

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• An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.

  James Russell Lowell

  Angel, Vision, Doorways

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.225

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• The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

  James Russell Lowell

  Society, Generations, May

  James Russell Lowell (1888). “Books and Libraries: And Other Papers”

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• How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Blood, Feet, Dancing

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.”, p.31, tredition

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• The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life Lesson, Thinking, Sorrow

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• New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Onward And Upward, Progress, Ancient

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

  James Russell Lowell

  Knives, Mind, Democracy

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Letters, ed. by C. E. Norton”

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• All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it

  James Russell Lowell

  Race, Government, World

  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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• They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Blood, Mountain

  James Russell Lowell (1896). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”

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• Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.

  James Russell Lowell

  Brave, Simplicity, Ridiculous

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.433, Delphi Classics

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• So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.

  James Russell Lowell

  Gun, Thinking, Causes

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• May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Real, Wind

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.372

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• Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Fate, Conniving

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.430

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• The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

  James Russell Lowell

  Son, Men, White

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.17

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• A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.

  James Russell Lowell

  Smart, Blow, Irritation

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.115

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• Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Flower, Pride

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.82

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• But better far it is to speak
  One simple word, which now and then
  Shall waken their free nature in the weak
  And friendless sons of men.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sympathy, Son, Simple

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.40

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• A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Criticism, Weapons, Weak

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.56

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• I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

  James Russell Lowell

  Tears, Poet, Strings

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• Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Feelings, Degrees

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.326

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• The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

  James Russell Lowell

  Materials

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Literary and political addresses”

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• Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

  James Russell Lowell

  Long, Spirit, Century

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.384

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