JRJames Russell Lowell

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James Russell Lowell

Life dates: 1819 AD — 1891 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1855 AD

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,— Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

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02c. 1855 AD

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

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03c. 1855 AD

Nature fits all her children with something to do.

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04c. 1855 AD

Ez fer war, I call it murder,— There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

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05c. 1855 AD

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet 's done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

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06c. 1855 AD

This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

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07c. 1855 AD

Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man; He 's ben on all sides thet give places or pelf; But consistency still wuz a part of his plan,— He 's ben true to one party, an' thet is himself.

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08c. 1855 AD

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

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09c. 1855 AD

But John P. Robinson, he Sez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee.

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10c. 1855 AD

I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

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11c. 1855 AD

Of my merit On thet pint you yourself may jedge; All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.

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12c. 1855 AD

Ez to my princerples, I glory In hevin' nothin' o' the sort.

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13c. 1855 AD

Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender.

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14c. 1855 AD

The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceilin'.

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15c. 1855 AD

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

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16c. 1855 AD

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

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17c. 1855 AD

All kin' o' smily round the lips, An' teary round the lashes.

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18c. 1855 AD

Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.

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19c. 1855 AD

Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood.

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20c. 1855 AD

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

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21c. 1855 AD

Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

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22c. 1855 AD

Under the yaller pines I house, When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented, An' hear among their furry boughs The baskin' west-wind purr contented.

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23c. 1855 AD

Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

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24c. 1855 AD

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

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