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Quote by James Russell Lowell

“And what they dare to dream of, date to do.”

Quote by James Russell Lowell

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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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“There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.”

Men Made Able Stuff Sun Position He Man Victory Defeat Dues Due Time

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?”

Men Firsts Said States Father Born Church Democracy Century Theory Property Every Man Organized Theft Inventor Workshops Montesquieu

Book:Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers

Source: Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers

“Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.”

Firsts Said Christ Democracy Democrat Gentleman True Gentleman

Book:The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...

Source: The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...

“If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.”

Ifs Father Shapes Devil Busy Our Father Hateful

Book:Among my Books, etc

Source: Among my Books, etc

“Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.”

World Years Earth Left Circles Privacy Arctic Icy Plums Disenchantment Disenchanted

Book:Fireside Travels

Source: Fireside Travels

“The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.”

Firsts States School Church Education Opening Grammar Monopoly Church And State Trenches Grammar School

Book:Among my Books, etc

Source: Among my Books, etc

“Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.”

Moments Generations Influence Mankind Produce Institutions Conviction Enthusiasm Everlasting Abiding Eloquence Begets

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.”

Men May Enough Faith Next Teaching England This Life Formulas Faith In God Creeds Founders New England

Book:Among my Books, etc

Source: Among my Books, etc

“Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.”

Knows Men Wells Looks Self Mistake Bottom Seeking Egotism Self Will

Book:Among My Books: Six Essays

Source: Among My Books: Six Essays

“There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.”

Firsts Kind May Said Two Age Speak Wish Genius Eternal Highest Speaks Out

Book:The North American Review

Source: The North American Review