[ james russell lowell Quotes ]
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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
[ Scholars and Scholarship ]
James Russell Lowell
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
James Russell Lowell
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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
James Russell Lowell
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
[ Reason ]
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
[ Uncategorised ]
James Russell Lowell
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
[ Words ]
James Russell Lowell
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
[ Books - Reading ]
James Russell Lowell
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Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.
[ Democracy ]
James Russell Lowell
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
[ Work ]
James Russell Lowell
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
[ Understanding ]
James Russell Lowell
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
[ Fortune ]
James Russell Lowell
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
[ Freedom ]
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He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
[ Knowledge ]
James Russell Lowell
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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
[ Interest ]
James Russell Lowell
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
[ Youth ]
James Russell Lowell
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
[ Morality ]
James Russell Lowell
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
[ Incredulity ]
James Russell Lowell
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
[ Intelligence and Intellectuals ]
James Russell Lowell
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
[ Genius ]
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
[ Instinct ]
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
[ Death and Dying ]
James Russell Lowell
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Light is the symbol of truth.
[ Light ]
James Russell Lowell
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
[ Crime and Criminals ]
James Russell Lowell
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
[ Experience ]
James Russell Lowell
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Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.
[ Solitude ]
James Russell Lowell
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Sorrow is the great idealizer.
[ Grief ]
James Russell Lowell
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Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
[ Self-control ]
James Russell Lowell
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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
[ Heart ]
James Russell Lowell
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.
[ Poetry and Poets ]
James Russell Lowell
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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.
[ Opinions ]
James Russell Lowell
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The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
[ Idols ]
James Russell Lowell
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
[ Introspection ]
James Russell Lowell
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
[ Anxiety ]
James Russell Lowell
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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
[ Praise ]
James Russell Lowell
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The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
[ Ideals and Idealism ]
James Russell Lowell
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
[ Weakness ]
James Russell Lowell
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
[ Character ]
James Russell Lowell
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
[ Desire ]
James Russell Lowell
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
[ Truth ]
James Russell Lowell
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
[ Books - Reading ]
James Russell Lowell
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