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“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.”

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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Book:Among My Books: Six Essays

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“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.”

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“You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.”

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“The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.”

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“The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.”

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“History is clarified experience.”

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Source: Literary and political addresses

“Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.”

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“It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.”

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

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“To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.”

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