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Letter "J" » James Russell Lowell Quotes
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«They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.»
«Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is»
«Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Puritanism, religious liberty
«A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
attribute, scepticism
«Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Sentimentality
| Keywords:
as it were, crystals, precipitate, precipitated, precipitates, precipitating, sentiment
«Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide...And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.»
«The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it»
«There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Genius,
Work
| Keywords:
heart and soul, Human heart, responded, sooner or later
«A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity»
«Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own»
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