Mind Quotes by James Russell Lowell

12 Mind quotes by James Russell Lowell

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James Russell Lowell’s lyrical voice drifts through mental terrain in this brief collection. Though just 12 pieces, each line feels like a quiet invitation to contemplate the mind’s quiet corners.

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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.

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Stern men with empires in their brains.

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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

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There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than…

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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

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It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore…

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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard…

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Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek…

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It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of…

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

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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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