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• The one thing finished in this hasty world. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Cathedral
• Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet vi...
• To win the secret of a weed's plain heart. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet xxv
• One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Shakespeare Once More...
• One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Columbu...
• The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Longing...
• Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet iv...