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• Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• 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...
• Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• Nature fits all her children with something to do.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- A Fable for Critic...
• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Columbu...
• 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....
• 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...
• All kin' o' smily round the lips, An' teary round the lashes.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...