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“But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet
Lessen like sound of friends’ departing feet;
And Death is beautiful as feet of friend
Coming with welcome at our journey’s end.
For me Fate gave, whate’er she else denied,
A nature sloping to the southern side;
I thank her for it, though when clouds arise
Such natures double-darken gloomy skies.”

James Russell Lowell

Epistle to George William Curtis (1874)

“Ez to my princerples, I glory
In hevin' nothin' o' the sort.”

James Russell Lowell

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

“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.”

James Russell Lowell

Abraham Lincoln (1864)

“When I was a beggarly boy,
And lived in a cellar damp,
I had not a friend nor a toy,
But I had Aladdin's lamp.”

James Russell Lowell

Aladdin, st. 1 (1868)

“Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown
An' peeked in thru' the winder,
An there sot Huldy all alone,
'ith no one nigh to hender.”

James Russell Lowell

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

“All kin' o' smily round the lips,
An' teary round the lashes.”

James Russell Lowell

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

“You've gut to git up airly
Ef you want to take in God.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 1, st. 2
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:
Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.”

James Russell Lowell

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

“The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.”

James Russell Lowell

Interview with Miles Standish.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Folks never understand the folks they hate.”

James Russell Lowell

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

“Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,
First pledge of blithesome [[May],
Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.”

James Russell Lowell

To the Dandelion http://www.gaygardener.com/poems/gpoem072.phtml, st. 1

“New times demand new measures and new men;
The world advances, and in time outgrows
The laws which in our father's times were best;
And doubtless, after us, some purer scheme
Will be shaped out by wiser men than we,
Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.”

James Russell Lowell

A Glance Behind the Curtain (1843)

“Earth’s noblest thing, — a woman perfected.”

James Russell Lowell

Irené

“The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow
Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below.”

James Russell Lowell

Epistle to George William Curtis (1874)

“The democratic theory is that those Constitutions are likely to prove steadiest which have the broadest base, that the right to vote makes a safety - valve of every voter, and that the best way of teaching a man how to vote is to give him the chance of practice. For the question is no longer the academic one, "Is it wise to give every man the ballot?" but rather the practical one, "Is it prudent to deprive whole classes of it any longer?" It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong in their heads.”

James Russell Lowell

On Democracy (6 October 1884)

“Of my merit
On thet pint you yourself may jedge;
All is, I never drink no sperit,
Nor I haint never signed no pledge.”

James Russell Lowell

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

“Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.”

James Russell Lowell

Democracy and Other Addresses (1886)

“One of the most curious of these frenzies of exclusion was that against the emancipation of the Jews. All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious, race that had ever lived in it - the race to whom we owed our religion and the purest spiritual stimulus and consolation to be found in all literature - a race in which ability seems as natural and hereditary as the curve of their noses, and whose blood, furtively mingling with the bluest bloods in Europe, has quickened them with its own indomitable impulsion.”

James Russell Lowell

On Democracy (6 October 1884)

“There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.”

James Russell Lowell

On Democracy (6 October 1884)
Context: There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. And in this case, also, the prudent will prepare themselves to encounter what they cannot prevent. Some people advise us to put on the brakes, as if the movement of which we are conscious were that of a railway train running down an incline. But a metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home and imbed it in the memory.