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• Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Writing, Fit

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.162

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• If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Alive, Tradition

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.310

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• All God's angels come to us disguised.

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  Inspirational, Angel, Guardian Angel

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.202

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• New occasions teach new duties.

  James Russell Lowell

  Onward And Upward, Duty, Teach

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

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  Work, Blessed, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.52

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• Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

  The Biglow Papers, Second Series, "Ef I a song or two could make" l. 97 (1867)

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• They have rights who dare maintain them.

  James Russell Lowell

  Rights, Liberty, Dare

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.67

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• He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

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  Thinking, Progress, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.6

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• There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Sea, Pirate

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.157

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• Those who love are but one step from heaven.

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  Love, Heaven, Steps

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.109

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• With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

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  Sight, Spirit, Grows

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.87

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• A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

  James Russell Lowell

  Age, Needs, Poet

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• Taste is the next gift to genius.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Taste, Next

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.53

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• Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sides, Argument, Aspiration

  James Russell Lowell (1872). “Among my Books: Contents: Dryden. Witchcraft. Shakespeare once more. New England two centuries ago. Lessing. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists”, p.233

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• Silence is sorrow's best food.

  James Russell Lowell

  Silence, Sorrow, Best Food

  James Russell Lowell (1898). “Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole”, p.438, Library of Alexandria

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• O reputation! dearer far than life.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reputation

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• Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Success, Fate, Wish

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.426

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• With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Travel, Inheritance

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.172

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• There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

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  Mind, Left Alone, Dread

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

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• Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

  James Russell Lowell

  Memories, Gymnastics, Intellectual

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

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• They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Two, Hatred

  James Russell Lowell (1849). “Poems”, p.206

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• Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.

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  Believe, Imagination, Sensual

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1162, Delphi Classics

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• The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

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  Fool, Results, Planets

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• Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!

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  God, Strong, Dark

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.713, Delphi Classics

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• Fate loves the fearless.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fate, Thinking, Stay Positive

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.684, Delphi Classics

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