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“The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.”

Quote by James Russell Lowell

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

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Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

This book explores the works of several renowned poets from the past, offering insights into their writing styles, themes, and historical significance. 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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“Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.”

Source: The English Poets Lessing: Rousseau

“The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.”

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Book:The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary and political addresses

Source: The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary and political addresses

“Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.”

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“Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.”

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Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.”

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Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

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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.”

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“Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.”

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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

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“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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“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