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“She thought no v'ice hed sech a swing
Ez hisn in the choir;
My! when he made Ole Hunderd ring
She knowed the Lord was nigher.”

James Russell Lowell

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

“We are persuaded that the election of Mr. Lincoln will do more than anything else to appease the excitement of the country. He has proved both his ability and his integrity; he has had experience enough in public affairs to make him a statesman, and not enough to make him a politician.”

James Russell Lowell

The Election in November 1860 (1860)

“To win the secret of a weed’s plain heart.”

James Russell Lowell

Sonnet XXV
Sonnets (1844)

“It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.”

James Russell Lowell

A Moosehead Journal.
Literary Essays, vol. I (1864-1890)

“Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.”

James Russell Lowell

A Few Bits of Roman Mosaic.
Literary Essays, vol. I (1864-1890)

“From lower to the higher next,
Not to the top, is Nature’s text;
And embryo Good, to reach full stature,
Absorbs the Evil in its nature.”

James Russell Lowell

Festina Lente, Moral

“If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, — and that is a book honestly come by.”

James Russell Lowell

Before the U. S. Senate Committee on Patents (29 January 1886)

“A reading-machine, always wound up and going,
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”

James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics

Prologue, st. 7
A Fable for Critics (1848)

“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”

James Russell Lowell

For an Autograph, st. 5 (1868)

“Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 6.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, —
One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.”

James Russell Lowell

Sonnet XXXIV
Sonnets (1844)

“The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.”

James Russell Lowell

Columbus (1844)

“Whatever be the effect of slavery upon the States where it exists, there can be no doubt that its moral influence upon the North has been most disastrous. It has compelled our politicians into that first fatal compromise with their moral instincts and hereditary principles which makes all consequent ones easy; it has accustomed us to makeshifts instead of statesmanship, to subterfuge instead of policy, to party-platforms for opinions, and to a defiance of the public sentiment of the civilized world for patriotism.”

James Russell Lowell

The Election in November 1860 (1860)

“Nature fits all her children with something to do,
He who would write and can't write, can surely review.”

James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics

A Fable for Critics (1848)

“We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great,
Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn this iron helm of fate,
But the soul is still oracular; amid the market's din,
List the ominous stern whisper from the Delphic cave within,—
"They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin."”

James Russell Lowell The Present Crisis

St. 9
The Present Crisis (1844)