James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 2

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• Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Eye, Voice

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

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• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

  James Russell Lowell

  Patience, Passion, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics

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• Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

  James Russell Lowell

  Writing, Night, Two

  James Russell Lowell, “For An Autograph”

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• True love is but a humble, low born thing,
  And hath its food served up in earthenware;
  It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand,
  Through the every-dayness of this workday world.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Humble, Love Is

  James Russell Lowell, “Love”

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• Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Law, Atheism

  James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale (1902). “Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell”

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• For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wisdom

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.386

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• It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Presence Of Mind, Emergencies

  Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Forever, Thrones

  "The Present Crisis" st. 8 (1845)

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• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

  James Russell Lowell

  Funny, Truth, Agreement

  James Russell Lowell (1887). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

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• One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

  James Russell Lowell

  Temptation, Philosopher, Metaphysics

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.119

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• Light is the symbol of truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Light, Literature, Spiritual Healing

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Beautiful, Creativity

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• Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

  James Russell Lowell

  Happiness, Success, Character

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

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• Tyranny is always weakness

  James Russell Lowell

  Weakness, Tyranny

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.32

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• And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wisdom, Strong, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.148

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• One day with life and heart
  Is more than time enough to find a world.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Time, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.57

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• Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith, Men, Differences

  "Literary Essays, vol. II". Book by James Russell Lowell, 1870-1890.

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• Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

  James Russell Lowell

  Time, Memories, Son

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.64

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• Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beauty, Sweet, Eye

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.51

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• The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Broken Heart, Sorrow

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.284, Delphi Classics

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• The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Giving, Every Man

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

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• There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

  James Russell Lowell

  Philosophical, Destiny, Grieving

  'Democracy and other Addresses' (1887) 'Democracy'

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• Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ignorance, Tyrants, Slave

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.32

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• Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

  James Russell Lowell

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Addiction

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.416

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• Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Real, Dust

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.48

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