The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.
A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated. - James Russell Lowell
A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
- James Russell Lowell
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. - James Russell Lowell
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes. - James Russell Lowell
Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.
The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised. - James Russell Lowell
The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. - James Russell Lowell
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
Every person born into this world their work is born with them. - James Russell Lowell
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare. - James Russell Lowell
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. - James Russell Lowell
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. - James Russell Lowell
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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