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• The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Path

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.174

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• But civlyzation doos git forrid
  Sometimes upon a powder-cart.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sometimes, Powder, Carts

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.208

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• Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Past, History

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.402

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• Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

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  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.178

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• Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

  James Russell Lowell

  Islands, Promise, Religion

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.109

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• Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Pride, Weakness

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1818, Delphi Classics

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• The ash her purple drops forgivingly
  And sadly, breaking not the general hush;
  The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea,
  Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush;
  All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze,
  Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Rain, Sunset

  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.70, tredition

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• I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.

  James Russell Lowell

  Morning, Self, Perfect

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• To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

  James Russell Lowell

  Youth, Young, Gifts Of Life

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.277

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• There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

  James Russell Lowell

  Boston, Rooms, Newspapers

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.397

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• Many make the household but only one the home.

  James Russell Lowell

  Home, Household

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.397

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• Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hero, Slave, Easy

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.163

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• What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Eye, Angel

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.55

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• Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Happiness, Heart, Gods Will

  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.33, tredition

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• In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

  James Russell Lowell

  Destiny, Brain, Scales

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• Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

  James Russell Lowell

  Memories, Attention, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.595, Delphi Classics

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• Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Men, Citizens

  'On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves' (1854)

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• My soul is not a palace of the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Soul, Palaces

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

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• I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

  James Russell Lowell

  Failure, Long, Tails

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.256

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• He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

  James Russell Lowell

  Memories, Giving, Perception

  James Russell Lowell (1890). “The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Ten Volumes: Literary and political addresses”

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• Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, Sunset, Snow

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.98

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• Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

  James Russell Lowell

  Order, Police, Mind

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.

  James Russell Lowell

  May, Merit, Drink

  James Russell Lowell (1859). “The Biglow papers”, p.111

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• Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

  James Russell Lowell

  Brother, Men, People

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

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• The purely Great
  Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,
  Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

  James Russell Lowell

  Passion, Fate, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.794, Delphi Classics

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