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“The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.”

Quote by James Russell Lowell

Book:Among My Books

Work

This book offers a curated selection of the author's personal reflections and anecdotes, drawn from their vast collection of books. It provides insights into the author's reading habits, the impact of literature on their life, and the stories behind their favorite volumes. 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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Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.”

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Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

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“Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.”

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Book:Abraham Lincoln

Source: Abraham Lincoln

“It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.”

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Book:Literary and political addresses

Source: Literary and political addresses

“But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart.”

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Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.”

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

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

“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.”

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Book:Among my Books, etc

Source: Among my Books, etc

“The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.”

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Book:Among My Books: Six Essays

Source: Among My Books: Six Essays

“Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.”

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

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

“Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!”

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Source: Poems