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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• 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...
• 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...
• The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -the less you know the hotter you get.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• 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