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• The one thing finished in this hasty world. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Cathedral
• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Columbu...
• One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Shakespeare Once More...
• 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...
• To win the secret of a weed's plain heart. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet xxv
• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
  -- James Russell Lowell...
• A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Shakespeare Once More...
• The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Longing...
• His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...