| 117 Famous Quotes by James Russell Lowell
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“Behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.”
Providence Quotes Source: The Present Crisis (st. 8)
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“The rich man's sons inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft, white hands could hardly earn
A living that would serve his turn.”
Wealth Quotes Source: The Heritage
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“Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man:
He's been on all sides that give places or pelf;
But consistency still wuz a part of his plan;
He's been true to one party, and that is, himself;--
So John P.
Robinson, he
Sez he shall vote for Gineral C.”
Consistency Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 3)
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“What visionary tints the year puts on,
When falling leaves falter through motionless air
Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone!
How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare,
As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills
The bowl between me and those distant hills,
And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!”
Autumn Quotes Source: An Indian Summer Reverie
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“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great
occasions.”
Greatness Quotes Source: My Study Windows--Garfield
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“They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
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They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.”
Slavery Quotes Source: Stanzas on Freedom (last stanza)
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“The thing we long for, that we are
For one transcendent moment.”
Desire Quotes Source: Longing
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“The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called
the savior of society by the next.”
Society Quotes Source: Don Quixote
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“An angel stood and met my gaze,
Through the low doorway of my tent;
The tent is struck, the vision stays;
I only know she came and went.”
Visions Quotes Source: She Came and Went
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“Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me,
To git me a transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree.”
Ancestry Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (2nd series, no. 3, III)
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“Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git
By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit;
For the day never comes when it'll du
To kick off dooty like a worn-out shoe.”
Duty Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (no. 11)
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“Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.”
Nobility Quotes Source: Sonnet IV
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“The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed;
Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod,
Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to
God.”
Treason Quotes Source: On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves near Washington
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“My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow:
Don't never prophesy--onless ye know.”
Prophecy (prophesy) Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (no. 2, Mason and Slidell)
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“It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors
To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours.”
Prophecy (prophesy) Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (no. 9, l. 97)
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“For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions,
Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.”
Motive Quotes Source: A Fable for Critics (l. 250)
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“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”
Experience Quotes Source: Among My Books--Shakespeare Once More
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“Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.”
Faults Quotes Source: A Fable for Critics (l. 28)
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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.”
Faith Quotes Source: My Study Windows--Abraham Lincoln
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“It is good
To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.”
Cheerfulness Quotes Source: Legend of Brittany (pt. I, st. 35)
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“In general those who nothing have to say
Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.”
Talk Quotes Source: To Charles Eliot Norton
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“Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward;
Rains fall, suns rise and set;
Earth whirls, and all but to prosper
A poor little violet.”
Violets Quotes Source: The Changeling
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“Violet! sweet violet!
Thine eyes are full of tears;
Are they wet
Even yet
With the thought of other years?”
Violets Quotes Source: Song
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“O chime of sweet Saint Charity,
Peal soon that Easter morn
When Christ for all shall risen be,
And in all hearts new-born!
That Pentecost when utterance clear
To all men shall be given,
When all shall say My Brother here,
And hear My Son in heaven!”
Easter Quotes Source: Godminster Chimes (st. 7)
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“Of my merit
On that pint you yourself may jedge:
All is, I never drink no sperit,
Nor I haint never signed no pledge.”
Temperance Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (first series, no. VII, st. 9)
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