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• Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Present Crisi...
• Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,-- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet xxxiv, (ed. 1844.)...
• The one thing finished in this hasty world. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Cathedral
• Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865...
• One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Columbu...