All James Russell Lowell Quotes
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
James Russell Lowell
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Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
James Russell Lowell
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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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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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
James Russell Lowell
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
James Russell Lowell
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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
James Russell Lowell
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
James Russell Lowell
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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