~ James Russell Lowell Quotes ~

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.