James Russell Lowell Quotes
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,But hern went pity-Zekle.
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Zekle crep' up quite unbeknownAn' peeked in thru' the winder,An there sot Huldy all alone,'ith no one nigh to hender.
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One day with life and heartIs more than time enough to find a world.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu duIs jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.
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They came three thousand miles, and died,To keep the Past upon its throne;Unheard, beyond the ocean tide,Their English mother made her moan.
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All kin' o' smily round the lips,An' teary round the lashes.
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No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu,An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,We bargain for the graves we lie in;At the Devil's booth are all things soldEach ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.
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She thought no v'ice hed sech a swingEz hisn in the choir;My! when he made Ole Hunderd ringShe knowed the Lord was nigher.
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The child is not mine as the first was,I cannot sing it to rest,I cannot lift it up fatherlyAnd bliss it upon my breast;Yet it lies in my little one's cradleAnd sits in my little one's chair,And the light of the heaven she's gone toTransfigures its golden hair.
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For though he builds glorious temples, 'tis oddHe leaves never a doorway to get in a god.
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The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snowNot whiter than the thoughts that housed below.
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Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many.
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Under the yaller pines I house,When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented,An' hear among their furry boughsThe baskin' west-wind purr contented.
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From the summit of power men no longer turn their eyes upward, but begin to look about them. Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
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If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed?
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The Maple puts her corals on in May,While loitering frosts about the lowlands cling,To be in tune with what the robins sing.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.
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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.