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• There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- A Fable for Critic...
• But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet Lessen like sound of friends' departing fee
  And Death is beautiful as feet of friend Coming with welcome at our journey's end....
• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Columbu...
• Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washingto...
• From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's tex
  And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature....
• All kin' o' smily round the lips, An' teary round the lashes.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...
• All thoughts that mould the age begin Deep down within the primitive soul.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- An Incident in a Railroad Ca...
• Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Second Series, Dante...