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• Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865...
• Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washingto...
• 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...
• The one thing finished in this hasty world. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Cathedral
• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
  -- James Russell Lowell...
• One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Columbu...
• One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Shakespeare Once More...
• The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Longing...
• The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Garfield...