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James Russell Lowell

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Quotations by James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891) | writer


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Christmas
by James Russell Lowell

"What means this glory round our feet, " The Magi mused, "more bright than morn! " And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born. "

Beggary
by James Russell Lowell

A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity.

Proverbs
by James Russell Lowell

A crime in which many are implicated goes unpunished.

Greatness
by James Russell Lowell

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Unsorted
by James Russell Lowell

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

Sarcasm
by James Russell Lowell

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Motherhood
by James Russell Lowell

A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.

Unsorted
by James Russell Lowell

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Visions
by James Russell Lowell

An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.

Reason
by James Russell Lowell

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.


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- Ancestry (1)
- Apparel (1)
- Argument (1)
- Autumn (1)
- Babyhood (1)
- Bees (1)
- Beggary (1)
- Cheerfulness (1)
- Christmas (1)
- Communism (1)
- Comparisons (1)
- Compromise (1)
- Dancing (1)
- Democracy (3)
- Desire (1)
- Destiny (1)
- Duty (1)
- Easter (1)
- Experience (1)
- Failure (2)
- Faith (1)
- Fancy (2)
- Faults (1)
- Fireflies (2)
- Fortune (1)
- Genius (1)
- Gifts (1)
- Glory (1)
- Greatness (1)
- Humanity (1)
- Imagination (1)
- Influence (1)
- June (2)
- Light (1)
- Loneliness and Solitude (1)
- Midnight (1)
- Minority (1)
- Misfortune (1)
- Motherhood (1)
- Motive (1)
- Mountains (1)
- Negativity (1)
- Nobility (1)
- Opinion (1)
- Past (1)
- Patience (1)
- Perception (1)
- Philanthropy (1)
- Possession (1)
- Progress (2)
- Prophecy (Prophesy) (2)
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- Providence (1)
- Race (1)
- Rank (1)
- Reason (1)
- Religion (1)
- Resolution (1)
- Reverie (1)
- Sarcasm (1)
- Scripture (1)
- Seasons (1)
- Self-control (2)
- Slavery (1)
- Society (1)
- Statesmanship (1)
- Talk (1)
- Temperance (1)
- Treason (1)
- Truth (1)
- Universe (1)
- Unsorted (9)
- Violets (2)
- Virtue (1)
- Visions (1)
- Washington, George (2)
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