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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.
James Russell Lowell
Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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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!
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Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man Great souls are portions of eternity.
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It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.
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Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
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Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
James Russell Lowell
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
James Russell Lowell
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
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