James Russell Lowell Quotes
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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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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To say why gals acts so or so,Or don't, 'ould be persumin';Mebby to mean yes an' say noComes nateral to women.
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
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His words were simple words enough,And yet he used them so,That what in other mouths was roughIn his seemed musical and low.
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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
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No man is born into the world whose workIs not born with him. There is always work,And tools to work withal, for those who will;And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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God makes sech nights, all white an' still,Fur'z you can look or listen,Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill,All silence an' all glisten.
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
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Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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If there are men who regret the Good Old Times, without too clear a notion of what they were, they should at least be thankful that we are rid of that misguided energy of faith which justifies conscience in making men unrelentingly cruel.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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Ez to my princerples, I gloryIn hevin' nothin' o' the sort.
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
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Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand,Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land?Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis Truth alone is strong,And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throngTroops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.
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New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth;They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of TruthLo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be,Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea,Nor attempt the Future’s portal with the Past’s blood-rusted key.