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Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
James Russell Lowell
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man;Great souls are portions of eternity.
James Russell Lowell -
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.
James Russell Lowell -
Along A River-Side, I Know Not Where,I walked one night in mystery of dream;A chill creeps curdling yet beneath my hair,To think what chanced me by the pallid gleamOf a moon-wraith that waned through haunted air.
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An umbrella is of no avail against a Scotch mist.
James Russell Lowell -
I du believe with all my soulIn the gret Press's freedom,To pint the people to the goalAn' in the traces lead 'em.
James Russell Lowell -
Ye come and go incessant; we remainSafe in the hallowed quiets of the past;Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot,Of faith so nobly realized as this.
James Russell Lowell
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Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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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.
James Russell Lowell -
Like streams that keep a summer mindSnow-hid in Jenooary.
James Russell Lowell -
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, - emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
James Russell Lowell -
Earth’s noblest thing, - a woman perfected.
James Russell Lowell -
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
James Russell Lowell
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The one thet fust gits mad 's 'most ollers wrong.
James Russell Lowell -
The very room, coz she was in,Seemed warm from floor to ceilin'
James Russell Lowell -
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?
James Russell Lowell -
Under the yaller pines I house,When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented,An' hear among their furry boughsThe baskin' west-wind purr contented.
James Russell Lowell -
The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snowNot whiter than the thoughts that housed below.
James Russell Lowell -
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.
James Russell Lowell
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Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
James Russell Lowell -
Here was a type of the true elder race,And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
James Russell Lowell -
There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on;Whose prose is grand verse while his verse the Lord knowsIs some of it pr- No, 't is not even prose!
James Russell Lowell -
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;We are happy now because God wills it.
James Russell Lowell