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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
James Russell Lowell
What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
James Russell Lowell
A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
James Russell Lowell
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.
James Russell Lowell
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
James Russell Lowell
Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
James Russell Lowell
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
James Russell Lowell
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
James Russell Lowell
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
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All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
James Russell Lowell
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
James Russell Lowell
Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.
James Russell Lowell
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
James Russell Lowell
