Quotes by James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

Lived from: 1819 - 1891

Category: Media | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 22 february 1819 Died: 12 august 1891

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  • Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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  • Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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  • Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''
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  • Sorrow is the great idealizer.
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  • Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
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  • Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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  • The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
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  • The eye is the notebook of the poet.
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  • The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
    My Study Windows (1871)
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  • The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
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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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  • The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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  • 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 mordant of experience.
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  • The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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  • The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
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  • The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
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  • The true use of a letter is to let one know that one is remembered and valued.
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  • The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
    Conversations on Some of the Old Poets (1845)
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  • There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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  • There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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