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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. ↗

— Abbott L. Lowell

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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done. ↗

— Abbott L. Lowell

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ↗

— Amy 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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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. ↗

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

— James Russell Lowell

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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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