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• A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Garfield...
• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washingto...
• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Columbu...
• To win the secret of a weed's plain heart. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet xxv
• 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...
• Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,-- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet xxxiv, (ed. 1844.)...
• Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin', No.
  vi...
• 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...