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James Russell Lowell

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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.


— James Russell Lowell


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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.


— James Russell Lowell


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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.


— James Russell Lowell


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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.


— 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.


— James Russell Lowell


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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.


— James Russell Lowell


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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.


— James Russell Lowell


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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.


— James Russell Lowell


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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.


— James Russell Lowell


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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.


— James Russell Lowell


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Did you know about James Russell Lowell?

(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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