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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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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
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
James Russell Lowell
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
James Russell Lowell
Fate loves the fearless.
James Russell Lowell
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
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
James Russell Lowell
The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.
James Russell Lowell
The future works out great men's destinies The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
James Russell Lowell
He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
James Russell Lowell
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.
James Russell Lowell
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
James Russell Lowell
A wise man travels to discover himself.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
James Russell Lowell
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
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
James Russell Lowell
It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.
James Russell Lowell
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
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
James Russell Lowell
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
James Russell Lowell
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
James Russell Lowell
