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Quotes from Literary Essays, vol. I — James Russell Lowell

1819–1891 United States

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Literary Essays, vol. I (1864)

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

Literary Essays, vol. I (1864)

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

Literary Essays, vol. I (1864)

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