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Inspirational Quotes by James Russell Lowell

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James Russell Lowell notes that pride and weakness are Siamese twins, showing how they grow together. He also says the best part of a person’s education is what they teach themselves, urging self‑learning. He reminds us that even angels can arrive in disguise, hidden in ordinary moments.

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Tyranny is always weakness

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To genius life never grows commonplace.

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The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

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All God's angels come to us disguised.

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Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

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They have rights who dare maintain them.

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Sorrow is the great idealizer.

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My soul is not a palace of the past...

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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

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Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.

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Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

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Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

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The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

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A wise man travels to discover himself.

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The one thing finished in this hasty world.

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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

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The gift without the giver is rare.

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Endurance is the crowning quality...

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Idleness induces caprice.

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Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

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The victory's in believing.

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

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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.

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Those who love are but one step from heaven.

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He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

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For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

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Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.

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

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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

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There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

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Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

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This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

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In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

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

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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.

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They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

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

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[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

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The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

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