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James Russell Lowell

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The eye is the notebook of the poet.


— James Russell Lowell


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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.


— James Russell Lowell


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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.


— James Russell Lowell


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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.


— James Russell Lowell


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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.


— James Russell Lowell


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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.


— James Russell Lowell


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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.


— James Russell Lowell


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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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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.


— James Russell Lowell


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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.


— 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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