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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Vices
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Epigrams
Stories
Suit
Must
Vice
Suits
Pleasant
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All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.
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There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.
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The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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The pine is the mother of legends.
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No price is set on the lavish summer June may be had by the poorest comer.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
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A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
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Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
James Russell Lowell
What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, more bright than morn! And voices chanted clear and sweet, To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
James Russell Lowell
That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
James Russell Lowell
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
James Russell Lowell
