It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
Quotations by James Russell Lowell

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• To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. James Russell Lowell
• Not failure, but low aim, is crime. James Russell Lowell
• Freedom is the only law which genius knows. James Russell Lowell
• The eye is the notebook of the poet. James Russell Lowell
• Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it. James Russell Lowell
• I don’t believe in principle, but I do in interest. James Russell Lowell
• The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. James Russell Lowell
• He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. James Russell Lowell
• If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. James Russell Lowell
• Sorrow is the great idealizer. James Russell Lowell