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James Russell Lowell amerikai költő, író, diplomata.

✵ 22. február 1819 – 12. augusztus 1891
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James Russell Lowell: Idézetek angolul

“There is no price set on the lavish summer,
And June may be had by the poorest comer.”

Prelude to Pt. I, st. 3
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)

“Darkness is strong, and so is Sin,
But surely God endures forever.”

Villa Franca.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look
On sech a blessed cretur.”

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

“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.”

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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