James Russell Lowell Quotes
Both of them mean that Labor has no rights which Capital is bound to respect,-that there is no higher law than human interest and cupidity.
James Russell Lowell
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There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
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The birch, most shy and lady-like of trees,Her poverty, as best she may, retrieves,And hints at her foregone gentilitiesWith some saved relics of her wealth of leaves.
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These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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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.
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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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And I honor the man who is willing to sinkHalf 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, Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store, Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.
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She doeth little kindnessesWhich most leave undone, or despise.
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We are persuaded that the election of Mr. Lincoln will do more than anything else to appease the excitement of the country. He has proved both his ability and his integrity; he has had experience enough in public affairs to make him a statesman, and not enough to make him a politician.
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The capacity of indignation makes an essential part of the outfit of every honest man.
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Both of them mean that Labor has no rights which Capital is bound to respect,-that there is no higher law than human interest and cupidity.
James Russell Lowell