The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
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“On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.”
Source: My Study Windows
“O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.”
Source: Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.”
Source: The Works of James Russell Lowell: Poetical works
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.”
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Source: Poems
“Humbleness is always grace; always dignity”
Source: Poems
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Source: Among My Books
“Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.”
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“This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.”
Source: The Biglow papers
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
Source: Reader! Walk Up at Once (it Will Soon be Too Late) and Buy at a Perfectly Ruinous Rate a Fable for Critics: Or, Better, (I Like, as a Thing that the Reader's First Fancy May Strike, an Old Fashioned Title-page, Such as Presents a Tabular View of the Volume's Contents) a Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies (Mrs. Malaprop's Word) from the Tub of Diogenes; a Vocal and Musical Medley
“Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.”
Source: Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes
“In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.”
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Source: Books and Libraries: And Other Papers
“In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.”
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Source: The Biglow papers
“One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.”
Source: Fireside Travels
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
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Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.”
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Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
Source: Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.”
Source: My Study Windows
“They have rights who dare maintain them.”
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“Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.”
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Source: Literary and political addresses
“The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.”
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Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)