James Russell Lowell Quotes

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak. ...... They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

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Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.

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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

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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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Solitude is as needful to the imagination As society is wholesome for the character.

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Greatly begin Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime- Not failure, but low aim is crime.

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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

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Ez fer war, I call it murder, There you hev it plain an' flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. .... . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

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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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Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

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It 'The Ancient Mariner' is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

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The one thing finished in this hasty world.

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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction.

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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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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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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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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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