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Letter "J" » James Russell Lowell Quotes
«An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
Appeal To Reason
«If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon»
«Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
incredulity, in return
«It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
metal, presence of mind, untried
«One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.»
«Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.»
«Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.»
«I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Bowie, Bowie knife
«He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.»
«Of all the sarse that I can call to mind, / England does make the most onpleasant kind: / It's you're the sinner 'ollers, she's the saint; / Wut's good's all English, all thet isn't ain't.»
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