1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
James Russell Lowell – [Desire]
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
James Russell Lowell – [Knowledge]
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
James Russell Lowell – [Truth]
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
James Russell Lowell – [Truth]
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
James Russell Lowell – [Books and Reading]
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
James Russell Lowell – [Privilege]
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
James Russell Lowell – [Discipline]
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