James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowellwas an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 February 1819
CountryUnited States of America
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
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All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man.
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One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.