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James Russell Lowell
Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.
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James Russell Lowell
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
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James Russell Lowell
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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James Russell Lowell
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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James Russell Lowell
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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James Russell Lowell
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later res ...
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James Russell Lowell
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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James Russell Lowell
Great truths are portions of the soul of man;
Great souls are portions of eternity.
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James Russell Lowell
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
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James Russell Lowell
So we're all right, an' I, fer one,
Don't think our cause '11 lose in vally
By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun,
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James Russell Lowell
If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, and tbat is a book honestly co ...
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James Russell Lowell
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!
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James Russell Lowell
And the loved books that younger grow with years.
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James Russell Lowell
And so dull that the men who retailed them out-doors
Got the ill name of augurs, because they were bores
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James Russell Lowell
There was one feudal custom worth keeping, at least,
Roasted bores made a part of each well-ordered feast.
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James Russell Lowell
When I was a beggarly boy
And lived in a cellar damp,
I had not a friend nor a toy,
But I had Aladdin's lamp
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