James Russell Lowell ✓

(1819–1891) poet United States

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[Wikipedia] James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets to rival the popularity of British poets. These writers usually used conventional forms and meters in the

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• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. Almost Sure
• A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. Great
• In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. Baseness
• The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. Anywhere
• There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. Acceptance
• He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. Authority
• I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. Been
• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. Begin
• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. Adversity
• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp… All
• There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. Cruelty
• To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. Desire
• Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. Circumstances
• Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain. Anxiety
• An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. Appeal
• Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. Brave
• Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. Aim
• Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. Anticipation
• It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. Common
• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. Dealing
• Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for… Blown
• The eye is the notebook of the poet. Eye
• The surest plan to make a man is, think him so. Him
• There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. Bends
• True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. Consists

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