Creative Quotations from . . .
James Russell Lowell
(1819-1891) born on Feb 22
US "poet, critic, editor, diplomat". "He was the first editor of "Atlantic Monthly," 1857-61; ambassador to Spain and Great Britain, 1877-85."
 
   
F
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

R
It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.
A
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
N
"Not failure, but low aim, is crime."
K
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "My Study Windows, "Library of Old Authors" (1871)."
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A: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
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