James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, diplomat, and abolitionist.
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“Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.”
James Russell Lowell
“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”
“Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to”
“It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested”
“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
“They who love are but one step from Heaven”
“In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak”
“Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write can surely review”
“Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people”