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Famous James Russell Lowell Quotes
“Light is the symbol of truth.”
“Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.”
“Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.”
“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”
“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”
“In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.”
“The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.”
“An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.”
“Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.”
“Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.”
“It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.”
“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”
“What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.”
“If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.”
“Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.”