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• It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- An Incident in a Railroad Ca...
• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
  -- James Russell Lowell...
• Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet vi...
• The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- To George William Curti...
• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Columbu...
• Nature fits all her children with something to do.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- A Fable for Critic...
• But John P. Robinson, he Sez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. iii...
• Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin', No. vii...
• There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...