“Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.”
Source: My Study Windows
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Famous James Russell Lowell Quotes
“A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.”
Source: My Study Windows
“Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
Source: The North American Review
Source: My Study Windows
Source: My Study Windows
“Taste is the next gift to genius.”
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
Source: Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell
“It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.”
“Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.”
Source: Among my Books, etc
Source: Among my Books, etc