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• Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• Sentiment is intellectualized emotion,--emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet vi...
• A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Garfield...
• Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washingto...
• Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,-- Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Vision of Sir Launfal, Part Second, viii...
• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Columbu...