Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Quote by James Russell Lowell

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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell...

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell...

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory...

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory...

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in...

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in...

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to...

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to...

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at...

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at...

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is...

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is...

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no...

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no...

No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest...

No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest...

What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a...

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a...

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at...

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at...

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say...

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say...

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way