1. Amy Lowell - “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”

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2. Amy Lowell - “For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”

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3. Amy Lowell - “Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.”

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4. Amy Lowell - “I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find untrue All this I have believed and rested on, Forever vanished, like a vision gone Out into the night. Alas, how few There are who strike in us a chord we knew Existed, but so seldom heard its tone We tremble at the half-forgotten sound. The world is full of rude awakenings And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground, Yet still our human longing vainly clings To a belief in beauty through all wrongs. O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!”

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5. James R. Lowell - “May is a pious fraud of the almanac.”

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6. James R. Lowell - “No man is born into the world, whose work Is 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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7. James R. Lowell - “You've a darned long row to hoe.”

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8. James Russell Lowell - “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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9. James Russell Lowell - “The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”

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10. James Russell Lowell - “Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime- Not failure, but low aim is crime.”

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11. James Russell Lowell - “The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction.”

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12. James Russell Lowell - “Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”

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13. James Russell Lowell - “Solitude is as needful to the imagination As society is wholesome for the character.”

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14. James Russell Lowell - “Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.”

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15. James Russell Lowell - “What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!”

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16. James Russell Lowell - “A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.”

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17. James Russell Lowell - “It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.”

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18. James Russell Lowell - “Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.”

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19. James Russell Lowell - “One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”

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20. James Russell Lowell - “Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave”

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21. James Russell Lowell - “This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.”

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22. James Russell Lowell - “I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.”

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23. James Russell Lowell - “A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”

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24. James Russell Lowell - “Mishaps are like knives, that either serve as or cut us, as we grip them by the blade or by the handle.”

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25. James Russell Lowell - “Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.”

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