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James Russell Lowell Quotes

James Russell Lowell -- Quote #1

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. -- James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell -- Quote #2

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. -- James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell -- Quote #3

Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty. -- James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell -- Quote #4

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy. -- James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell -- Quote #5

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. -- James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell -- Quote #6

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.' -- James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell -- Quote #7

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. -- James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell -- Quote #8

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. -- James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell -- Quote #9

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. -- James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell -- Quote #10

But all God's angels come to us disguised... -- James Russell Lowell

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