Lowell, James Russell (James Russell Lowell)

Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor.
-- James Russell Lowell

All thoughts that mould the age begin
Deep down within the primitive soul.

-- James Russell Lowell

The thing we long for, that we are
For one transcendent moment.

-- James Russell Lowell

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

-- James Russell Lowell

Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
-- James Russell Lowell

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.

-- James Russell Lowell


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