It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
Quotations by James Russell Lowell

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• What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. James Russell Lowell
• Freedom is the only law which genius knows. James Russell Lowell
• As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness. James Russell Lowell
• Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. James Russell Lowell
• The eye is the notebook of the poet. James Russell Lowell
• Not failure, but low aim, is crime. 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
• 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