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James Russell Lowell was an American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat associated with the Fireside Poets. Widely respected for his literary criticism, he contributed significantly to American literature and culture. He also served as a diplomat, representing the United States in Spain and the United Kingdom. Here are 263 of his quotes:

Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu. (James Russell Lowell)
Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this. View quote
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined. View quote
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. View quote
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. View quote
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. View quote
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. View quote
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There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer. View quote
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Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man He 's ben on all sides thet give places or pelf But consistency still wuz a part of his plan, He 's ben true to one party, an' thet is himself. (James Russell Lowell)
The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. View quote
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The question of common sense is always "What is it good for?"-a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. View quote
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The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceilin'. View quote
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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst. View quote
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It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. View quote
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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons. View quote
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Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood. View quote
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The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude. View quote
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But John P. Robinson, he Sez they didn't know everythin' down in Judee. View quote
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Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender. (James Russell Lowell)
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. View quote
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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police. View quote
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A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller. View quote
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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. View quote
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James Russell Lowell

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: February 22, 1819
Died: August 12, 1891
Quotes count: 263
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