James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 4

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• In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Literature, Morality

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.61

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• That best academy, a mother's knee.

  James Russell Lowell

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.

  James Russell Lowell

  Dream, Giving, Imagination

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

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• History is clarified experience.

  James Russell Lowell

  History

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

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• In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fudge, Stealing, Vain

  James Russell Lowell (1911). “The poetical works”

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• The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

  James Russell Lowell

  Squares, Atmosphere, Sixteen

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• Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Knowing Who You Are, Blight

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

  James Russell Lowell

  Education, Knowledge, Desire

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• Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

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  Sweet, Eye, Years

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.73, Delphi Classics

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• Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Feet, Steps

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.93

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• That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Spring, Wide

  James Russell Lowell (1841). “A year's life”, p.159

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• The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today.
  
  The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Weed, Spring, Flower

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• Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.

  James Russell Lowell

  Loneliness, Heart, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.16

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• Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Eye, Clouds

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

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• It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Thinking, Mind

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.124

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• And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.

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  Two, Race, Ease

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.806, Delphi Classics

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• And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

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  Dream, Dare To Dream, Daring

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• I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Tree, Proportion

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• They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fear, Character, Speak

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.53

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• For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Naked

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.117

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• Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Foundation, Sap

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1871). “The North American Review”, p.189

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• Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

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  Spring, Flower, Evil

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.34

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• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

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  Inspirational, Creativity, Play

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.138

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• There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, 4th Of July, Cinco De Mayo

  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.25, tredition

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• Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

  James Russell Lowell

  Power, Men, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.356

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