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James Russell Lowell

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.


— James Russell Lowell


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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.


— James Russell Lowell


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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.


— James Russell Lowell


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


— James Russell Lowell


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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.


— James Russell Lowell


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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.


— James Russell Lowell


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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.


— James Russell Lowell


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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.


— James Russell Lowell


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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.


— James Russell Lowell


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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.


— James Russell Lowell


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(1782–1861) a minister at a Unitarian church in Boston who had previously studied theology at Edinburgh and Harriett Brackett Spence Lowell. He used poetry for reform particularly in abolitionism. " Like Lowell James Russell Lowell wrote poetry and the next twelve years of Lowell's life were deeply affected by her influence.

After moving back to Cambridge Lowell was one of the founders of a journal called The Pioneer which lasted only three issues. He publiJames Russell Lowelld his first collection of poetry in 1841 and married Maria White in 1844. Lowell attempted to emulate the true Yankee accent in the dialogue of his characters particularly in The Biglow Papers.

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