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Own Quotes by James Russell Lowell
- Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils,…
- Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
- Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to…
- I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its…
- A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
- Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be…
- There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
- [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.
- He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than…
- Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
- Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
- Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
- Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own
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