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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Literature, Sincere

  James Russell Lowell (1877). “Among My Books”

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• New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.

  James Russell Lowell

  Expression, Giving, Form

  James Russell Lowell (1969). “Literary Criticism of James Russell Lowell”

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• The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nurse, Soul, Solitude

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.54

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• True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

  James Russell Lowell

  Brother, Heart, Equality

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.125

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• Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Ocean, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.102

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• A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

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  Inspirational, Weed, Nature

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

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• Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

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  Truth, Honesty, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.116

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• Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

  James Russell Lowell

  Evil, Sides, Conflict

  James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis”

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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. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Lying, Different Faces

  James Russell Lowell (1886). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

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• A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mother, Heart, Love Is

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.30

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• As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

  James Russell Lowell

  Light, Lamps, Grows

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.406

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• Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.

  James Russell Lowell

  Vices, Stories, Half

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• Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Peace, Children

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• The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, July, Bees

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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• Stern men with empires in their brains.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Brain, Mind

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.272

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• The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Mirrors, Promise

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.48

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• Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  James Russell Lowell (1892). “Literary and political addresses”

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• Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

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  Humility, Equality, People

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.49

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• The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hypocrisy, Devil, Intolerance

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.83

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• The Holy Supper is kept, indeed,
  In whatso we share with anothers need;
  Not what we give, but what we share,
  For the gift without the giver is bare;
  Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
  Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Giving, Three, Needs

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.46, tredition

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• Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

  James Russell Lowell

  Shadow, Watches, Breaking Silence

  James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis”

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• True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

  James Russell Lowell

  Memories, Knowledge, Mean

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• Endurance is the crowning quality.

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  Perseverance, Quality, Endurance

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.133

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• Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold... 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking; There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer.

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  Summer, Money, Lying

  James Russell Lowell, Nathan Haskell Dole (1893). “The Early Poems of James Russell Lowell: With Biographical Sketch”

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