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• Nature fits all her children with something to do.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- A Fable for Critic...
• Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washingto...
• Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865...
• Hasten slowly. [festina lente] -- Augustus Caesa
• It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law.
  Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected....
• One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature -- inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste.
  And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out....
• 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...
• A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Shakespeare Once More...
• The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Garfield...