James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, diplomat, and abolitionist.
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“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”
James Russell Lowell
“O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all shall say My Brother here, And hear My Son in heaven! Author: James Russell Lowell”
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“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days”
“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found”
“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.”
“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
“Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action”