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James Russell Lowell Quotes

«Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.»
«The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.»
«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»
«We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.»
«Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.»
«They who love are but one step from Heaven»
«There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends»
«Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint»
«Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''»
«A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomach ache.»

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