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• Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet vi...
• Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet iv...
• Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,-- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet xxxiv, (ed. 1844.)...
• One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Columbu...
• His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...
• 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