Genius Quotes by James Russell Lowell

14 Genius quotes by James Russell Lowell

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James Russell Lowell’s 14 succinct thoughts on genius capture his wit and moral clarity, making this a handy stop for anyone wanting a quick taste of his perspective on talent.

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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

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To genius life never grows commonplace.

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

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Taste is the next gift to genius.

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Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

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Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

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“On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.”

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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,…

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There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human…

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Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully…

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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…

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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

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He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

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Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

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Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their…

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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

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O reputation! dearer far than life.

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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

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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…

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