James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 14

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• Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

  James Russell Lowell

  Discipline, Example, Literature

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• Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Anxiety, Tense

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• Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Flower, Simplicity

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Letters of James Russell Lowell”

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• Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

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  Heart, Suffering, Woe

  James Russell Lowell (1869). “Under the Willows, and Other Poems”, p.236

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• Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

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  Truth, Memories, Men

  James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind The Curtain”

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• Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like
  A star new-born that drops into its place
  And which, once circling in its placid round,
  Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.

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  Stars, Truth, Earth

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”, p.175

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• All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.

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  Song, Bird, Crow

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1661, Delphi Classics

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• It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Doe, Genius, Literature

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• An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

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  Running, Long, People

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Literary and political addresses”

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• Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

  James Russell Lowell

  Gold, Wealth, Virtue

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

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• The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

  James Russell Lowell

  Winter, Swans, Snow

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.379

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• Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

  James Russell Lowell

  Vision, Culture

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

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• Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hands, Play, Research

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• A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Weed, Flower, Eye

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

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• That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

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  Country, Sentiments, Pernicious

  James Russell Lowell (1898). “Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole”, p.521, Library of Alexandria

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• We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

  James Russell Lowell

  Science, Thinking, Moral

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.116

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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

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  Sacrifice, Reality, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.377

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• He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.403

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• The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

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  Real, Men, Experience

  James Russell Lowell (1888). “The English Poets: Lessing, Rousseau: Essays”

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• In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Time, Fate

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The poetical works”

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• If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

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  Time, Literature, Youth

  James Russell Lowell (1897). “The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...”

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• At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

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  Devil, Gold, Cost

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.282, Delphi Classics

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• It is right precious to behold
  The first long surf of climbing light
  Flood all the thirsty east with gold.

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  Light, Climbing, Long

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.78

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• Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

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  Character, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  "The Works of James Russell Lowell".

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• Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

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  Grief, Joy, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.118

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