"And what is so rare as a day……" — James Russell Lowell
"And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days."
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287 Quotes by James Russell Lowell
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- May is a pious fraud of the almanac.
- That best academy, a mother's knee.
- True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to…
- It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
- He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
- Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
- To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
- Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.
- Wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
- Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
- Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
- Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.
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