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“There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,
Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on;
Whose prose is grand verse while his verse the Lord knows
Is some of it pr— No, 't is not even prose!”

James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics

Pt. I - Emerson, st. 1
A Fable for Critics (1848)

“The birch, most shy and lady-like of trees,
Her poverty, as best she may, retrieves,
And hints at her foregone gentilities
With some saved relics of her wealth of leaves.”

James Russell Lowell

An Indian Summer Reverie http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1164/, st. 8 (1846)

Tree , Wealth

“The traitor to humanity is the traitor most accursed;
Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod,
Than to be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God!”

James Russell Lowell

"On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington" (1845)

God , Falseness

“From the summit of power men no longer turn their eyes upward, but begin to look about them. Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.”

James Russell Lowell

Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago

Men , Question

“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

Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago

Business

“There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.”

James Russell Lowell

Fireside Travels, At Sea (1864)

Sea

“In vain we call old notions fudge,
And bend our conscience to our dealing;
The Ten Commandments will not budge,
And stealing will continue stealing.”

James Russell Lowell

Motto of the American Copyright League. (Written Nov. 20, 1885).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”

James Russell Lowell

Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), Rousseau and the Sentimentalists

Sincerity

“They came three thousand miles, and died,
To keep the Past upon its throne;
Unheard, beyond the ocean tide,
Their English mother made her moan.”

James Russell Lowell

Graves of Two English Soldiers on Concord Battleground, st. 3 (1849)

Past

“Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 2.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“Where Church and State are habitually associated it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.”

James Russell Lowell

Dryden
Literary Essays, vol. III (1870-1890)

Religion , Nature

“Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”

James Russell Lowell

Speech at the banquet for Grand Duke Alexis, 11 November 1871 at the Revere House Hotel in Boston, p. 102 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=YRmn-_vXZ58C&pg=PA102&dq=persuaded
Cf. George Eliot 1879: Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact

“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

Sonnet IV
Sonnets (1844)

Men , Sleep , Dead

“It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 2.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“Soft-heartedness, in times like these,
Shows sof'ness in the upper story.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 7.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

Time

“Along A River-Side, I Know Not Where,
I walked one night in mystery of dream;
A chill creeps curdling yet beneath my hair,
To think what chanced me by the pallid gleam
Of a moon-wraith that waned through haunted air.”

James Russell Lowell

The Washers of the Shroud http://www.bartleby.com/102/129.html, st. 1 (October 1861)

Dreams , Thinking , Chance , Night

“No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu,
An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 5.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

James Russell Lowell

Cambridge Thirty Years Ago.
Literary Essays, vol. I (1864-1890)

“God makes sech nights, all white an' still,
Fur'z you can look or listen,
Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill,
All silence an' all glisten.”

James Russell Lowell

The Courtin' , st. 1.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

God , Silence , Night