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• Nature fits all her children with something to do.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- A Fable for Critic...
• Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Vision of Sir Launfal, Prelude to Part Fi...
• Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• The one thing finished in this hasty world. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Cathedral
• This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. ii...
• Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- To the Dandelio...
• Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame
  Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same....
• Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal
  Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?...