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• He gives us the very quintessence of perception,--the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Coleridge...
• Earth's noblest thing,--a woman perfected. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Irene
• Not failure, but low aim, is crime. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
• Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Cathedral
• The one thing finished in this hasty world. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Cathedral
• Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie
  Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not....
• There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's tex
  And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature....
• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- My Study Windows, Abraham Lincoln, 1864...