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James Russell Lowell Quotes
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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers, and dreads nothing so much as their charity and patience (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; they must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
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 (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely? (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there’s such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men’s memories her joyous slaves (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
Skilled to pull wires he baffles nature’s hope, who sure intended him to stretch a rope (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
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 (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
Our seasons have no fixed returns, without our will they come and go; at noon our sudden summer burns, ere sunset all is snow (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
Her hair was not more sunny than her heart, though like a natural golden coronet it circled her dear head with careless art (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
The true ideal is not opposed to the real, nor is it any artificial heightening thereof, but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
She hath a natural, wise sincerity, a simple truthfulness; and these have lent her a dignity as moveless as the centre (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
A terrible thing to be pestered with poets! But, alas, she is dumb, and the proverb holds good, she never will cry till she’s out of the wood! (James Russell Lowell Quotes)
Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave (James Russell Lowell Quotes)