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Title: ~ James Russell Lowell Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:14:29 PM
James Russell Lowell Quotes

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An American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat.
James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside.

Here are some famous quotes by James Russell Lowell. 

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Fate loves the fearless.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:15:32 PM
God'll send the bill to you.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:17:01 PM
Not failure but low aim is a crime.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:17:42 PM
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:18:12 PM
Earth's noblest thing a Woman perfected.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:20:56 PM
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:21:24 PM
Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:21:53 PM
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:22:26 PM
Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:23:00 PM
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:23:39 PM
Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:24:33 PM
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:25:05 PM
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:25:38 PM
The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:26:11 PM
The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change; then let it come.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:26:43 PM
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:27:15 PM
Darkness is strong and so is Sin But surely God endures forever!
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:27:49 PM
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:28:21 PM
Whom the heart of man shuts out Sometimes the heart of God takes in.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:28:51 PM
One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:30:35 PM
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:31:13 PM
Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:31:46 PM
O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:33:31 PM
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:34:03 PM
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:34:48 PM
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:36:13 PM
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:37:20 PM
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:38:13 PM
Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:38:54 PM
Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:40:03 PM
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:41:52 PM
In creating the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:43:33 PM
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:45:15 PM
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:46:47 PM
Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:48:08 PM
Let us be of good cheer remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:52:03 PM
Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:52:38 PM
Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:53:09 PM
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:53:42 PM
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:54:20 PM
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:54:54 PM
Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:55:23 PM
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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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:55:56 PM
The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:56:32 PM
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:57:06 PM
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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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:57:48 PM
Usually when people are sad they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry they bring about a change.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:58:24 PM
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:58:57 PM
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 01:59:36 PM
The question of commonsense is always 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 02:00:21 PM
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then if ever come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune And over it softly her warm ear lays.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 02:00:57 PM
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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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 02:01:32 PM
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 02:02:07 PM
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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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 02:02:43 PM
I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 02:03:20 PM
Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you which is a great comfort in the long run.
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 02:04:05 PM
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when she'll say to thee 'I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?'
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Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2014, 02:04:31 PM
Good heavens of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.