| 117 Famous Quotes by James Russell Lowell
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“And but two ways are offered to our will,
Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,
The problem still for us and all of human race.”
Comparisons Quotes Source: Under the Old Elm (pt. VII, st. 3)
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“We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.”
Past Quotes Source: The Cathedral (l. 234)
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“This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.”
Glory Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (first series, no. II)
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“From lower to the higher next,
Not to the top, is Nature's text;
And embryo good, to reach full stature,
Absorbs the evil in its nature.”
Progress Quotes Source: Festina Lente--Moral
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“New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of
truth.”
Progress Quotes Source: Present Crisis
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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.”
Argument Quotes Source: Democracy and Other Addresses, Democracy
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“Greatly begin! Though thou have time
But for a line, be that sublime--
Not failure, but low aim is crime.”
Failure Quotes Source: For an Autograph
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“Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as
it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.”
Fancy Quotes Source: Among My Books--Rousseau and the Sentimentalists
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“Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,
One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.”
Fancy Quotes Source: Sonnet XXXIV
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“Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.”
Patience Quotes Source: Columbus (l. 237)
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“Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.”
Statesmanship Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers--Mason and Slidell
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“Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious
liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.”
Democracy Quotes Source: Among My Books--New England Two Centuries Ago
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“Democ'acy gives every man
A right to be his own oppressor.”
Democracy Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (series 2, no. 7)
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“The purely Great
Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,
Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.”
Washington, george Quotes Source: Under the old Elm
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“Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage,
Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!”
Washington, george Quotes Source: Under the old Elm
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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 hand of toil!”
Work Quotes Source: A Glance Behind the Curtain (l. 202)
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“The very room, coz she was in,
Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.”
Influence Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (second series, The Courtin', st. 6)
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“He gives us the very quintessence of perception.”
Perception Quotes Source: My Study Windows--Coleridge
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“Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back
Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course
Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Fireside Travels
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“The future works out great men's destinies;
The present is enough for common souls,
Who, never looking forward, are indeed
Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age
Are petrified forever.”
Destiny Quotes Source: Act for Truth
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“Listen! O, listen!
Here come the hum the golden bees
Underneath full blossomed trees,
At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.”
Bees Quotes Source: The Sirens (l. 94)
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“Tiny Salmoneus of the air
His mimic bolts the firefly threw.”
Fireflies Quotes Source: The Lesson
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“The fireflies o'er the meadow
In pulses come and go.”
Fireflies Quotes Source: Midnight (st. 3)
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“So we're all right, an' I, for one,
Don't think our cause'll lose in vally
By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun,
An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.”
Scripture Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (second series, no. 7, st. 17)
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“Daily with souls that cringe and plot,
We Sinais climb and know it not.”
Mountains Quotes Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal (prelude to pt. I)
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