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“To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.”

Quote by James Russell Lowell

Book:Poetical works

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This compilation includes a diverse range of poems, showcasing the author's poetic style and thematic concerns across various genres and historical periods. more

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James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell was an American poet, born on February 22, 1819, and died on August 12, 1891. His poetry is known for its profound social insights and admiration for nature. more

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“In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.”

Brain Destiny Intellect Scales

Author:James Russell Lowell

“It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.”

Heart Stills Ends Forget Childhood Intellect Wicked Manhood Retired Attainment Dew Noon Fiery Defying Forget Everything Recoil

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.”

Failing Conscience Intellect

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.”

Heart May Doe Sides Tears Balance Authority Judgment Weight Absolutes Errors Casts Scales Kicks Pounds Delicate Vary Beam Seals Offenders Criminality

Author:James Russell Lowell

“My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'”

Dream Bigs Photographer National Geographic

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“Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.”

Sometimes Home Memories Argument Metaphor Gunpowder

Book:Essays, English and American

Source: Essays, English and American

“Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.”

Behinds Moral Morality Ruins Monument Supremacy

Book:Among My Books: First [-second] series

Source: Among My Books: First [-second] series

“Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.”

Men May Past Forever Century Intellectual Every Man Features Gaps Originality Parliament Ancestry Descendants

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.”

Doe Eye Faces House Doors One Day Ears Meetings Senses Indifferent Thrust Piety Puritan

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“Borrowed garments never keep one warm.”

Warm Garments Borrowed Plagiarism

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets