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• Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Taken, Cutting

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

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• A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Greatness, Destiny, Men

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

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• 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love; But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the Glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God.

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  Love, Eye, Angel

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• You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

  James Russell Lowell

  Want, Guts

  'The Biglow Papers' (First Series, 1848) no. 1 'A Letter'

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• It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

  James Russell Lowell

  Poetry, Mastery, Logic

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell”

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• He's true to God who's true to man.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men

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

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• Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Winter, Long

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.21

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• To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.

  James Russell Lowell

  Dark, Men, Views

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• Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fame, Deserve

  JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1871). “THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS.”, p.14

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• For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.

  James Russell Lowell

  Yesterday, Hands, Humanity

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

  James Russell Lowell

  Common Sense, Profound, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.132

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• The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.

  James Russell Lowell

  Humanity, Traitor, Treason

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

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• Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Men, Poetry

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

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• Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Promise, Youth

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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• Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Soul, Eternity

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.244

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• It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Real, Atheism

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Letters”

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• Sorrow is the great idealizer.

  James Russell Lowell

  Grief, Sorrow, Great Idea

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• Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.

  James Russell Lowell

  War, Heart, Sometimes

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• The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Doe, World

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

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• The gift without the giver is rare.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thank You, Generosity, Giving

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• The pine is the mother of legends.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mother, Legends

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.73

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• A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.

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  Wise, Heart, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.81

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• Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Thinking, Tree

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.401

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• And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

  James Russell Lowell

  Snow, Tree, Pearls

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

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• Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Towers, Looks

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.294

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