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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• 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...
• 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...
• Sentiment is intellectualized emotion,--emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• That cause is strong, which has not a multitude, but a strong man behind it.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)...
• No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him.
  There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will...
• Genius is the talent of a man who is dead.
• Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet vi...
• A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Garfield...