James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, diplomat, and abolitionist.
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“Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief”
James Russell Lowell
“Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.”
“Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.”
“But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.”
“There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, / Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on; / Whose prose is grand verse, while his verse, the Lord knows, / Is some of it pr - No, 'tis not even prose.”
“The eye is the notebook of the poet.”
“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
“The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.”
“If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by”
“We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.”