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All Thoughtful Men Are Solitary And Original In Themselves.
-James Russell Lowell
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All Thoughtful Men Are

James Russell Lowell
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All Thoughtful Men Are Solitary And Original In Themselves.

Understanding the Quote: "all thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves...."

This quote by James Russell Lowell reflects deeply on the theme of thoughtful. It connects to the universal human journey of purpose, motivation, and reflection. Often categorized under Thoughtful, Men, Originality, the quote offers insight, emotional clarity, and intellectual inspiration to readers worldwide.

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Memories
Men
Truth Forever On The Scaffold, Wrong Forever On The Throne,- Yet That Scaffold Sways The Future, And, Behind The Dim Unknown, Standeth God Within The Shadow, Keeping Watch Above His Own.
Truth
Forever
Shadow
I Tell Ye Wut, My Judgment Is You're Pooty Sure To Fail, Ez Long 'z The Head Keeps Turnin' Back For Counsel To The The Tail.
Failure
Long
Tails
If Youth Be A Defect, It Is One That We Outgrow Only Too Soon.
Time
Literature
Youth
His Heart Kep' Goin' Pity-pat, But Hern Went Pity-zekle.
Heart
Pity
Tyrants Are But The Spawn Of Ignorance, Begotten By The Slaves They Trample On.
Ignorance
Tyrants
Slave
Virtue Treads Paths That End Not In The Grave.
Path
Virtue
Ends
The Green Grass Floweth Like A Stream Into The Oceans's Blue.
Ocean
Blue
Green
It Is The Privilege Of Genius That Life Never Grows Common Place, As It Does For The Rest Of Us.
Doe
Genius
Literature
The Child Is Not Mine As The First Was, I Cannot Sing It To Rest, I Cannot Lift It Up Fatherly And Bliss It Upon My Breast; Yet It Lies In My Little One's Cradle And Sits In My Little One's Chair, And The Light Of The Heaven She's Gone To Transfigures Its Golden Hair.
Children
Lying
Light
All Thoughts That Mold The Age Begin Deep Down Within The Primitive Soul.
Ideas
Soul
Age
Let Us Be Thankful That There Is No Court By Which We Can Be Excluded From Our Share In The Inheritance Of The Great Poets Of All Ages And Countries, To Which Our Simple Humanity Entitles Us.
Country
Simple
Being Thankful
Time Is, After All, The Greatest Of Poets; And The Sons Of Memory Stand A Better Chance Of Being The Heirs Of Fame.
Time
Memories
Son
A Friendship Counting Nearly Forty Years Is The Finest Kind Of Shade-tree I Know.
Funny
Friendship
Meaningful
Compromise Makes A Good Umbrella, But A Poor Roof.
Compromise
Poor
Umbrella
Where Church And State Are Habitually Associated, It Is Natural That Minds, Even Of A High Order, Should Unconsciously Come To Regard Religion As Only A Subtler Mode Of Police.
Order
Police
Mind
There Is No Work Of Genius Which Has Not Been The Delight Of Mankind, No Word Of Genius To Which The Human Heart And Soul Have Not Sooner Or Later Responded.
Heart
Soul
Genius
The True Historical Genius, To Our Thinking, Is That Which Can See The Nobler Meaning Of Events That Are Near Him, As The True Poet Is He Who Detects The Divine In The Casual; And We Somewhat Suspect The Depth Of His Insight Into The Past Who Cannot Recognize The Godlike Of To-day Under That Disguise In Which It Always Visits Us.
Thinking
Past
Historical
The Pressure Of Public Opinion Is Like The Pressure Of The Atmosphere; You Can't See It - But All The Same, It Is Sixteen Pounds To The Square Inch.
Squares
Atmosphere
Sixteen
New Occasions Teach New Duties, Time Makes Ancient Good Uncouth; They Must Upward Still And Onward, Who Would Keep Abreast Of Truth.
Onward And Upward
Progress
Ancient
Not But Wut Abstract War Is Horrid, I Sign To Thet With All My Heart, But Civilysation Doos Git Forrid Sometimes, Upon A Powder-cart.
War
Heart
Sometimes
A Man Is Old When He Can Pass An Apple Orchard And Not Remember The Stomachache.
Birthday
Men
Apples
In The Storm, Like A Prophet O'ermaddened, Thou Singest And Tossest Thy Branches; Thy Heart With The Terror Is Gladdened, Thou Forebodest The Dread Avalanches.... In The Calm Thou O'erstretchest The Valleys With Thine Arms, As If Blessings Imploring, Like An Old King Led Forth From His Palace, When His People To Battle Are Pouring.
Kings
Heart
Blessing
Of My Merit On That Pint You Yourself May Jedge: All Is, I Never Drink No Sperit, Nor I Haint Never Signed No Pledge.
May
Merit
Drink
Over Our Manhood Bend The Skies; Against Our Fallen And Traitor Lives The Great Winds Utter Prophecies; With Our Faint Hearts The Mountain Strives, Its Arms Outstretched, The Druid Wood Waits With Its Benedicite And To Our Age’s Drowsy Blood Still Shouts The Inspiring Sea.
Nature
Heart
Blood
We Cannot But Think There Is Something Like A Fallacy In Mr. Buckle's Theory That The Advance Of Mankind Is Necessarily In The Direction Of Science, And Not In That Of Morals.
Science
Thinking
Moral
Not A Change For The Better In Our Human Housekeeping Has Ever Taken Place That Wise And Good Men Have Not Opposed It-have Not Prophesied That The World Would Wake Up To Find Its Throat Cut In Consequence.
Wise
Taken
Cutting
Life May Be Given In Many Ways, And Loyalty To Truth Be Sealed As Bravely In The Closet As The Field.
Loyalty
Bravery
May
And The Poorest Twig On The Elm-tree Was Ridged Inch Deep With Pearl.
Snow
Tree
Pearls
That Best Academy, A Mother's Knee.
Family
Mothers Day
Mom
A Beggar Through The World Am I, From Place To Place I Wander By. Fill Up My Pilgrim's Scrip For Me, For Christ's Sweet Sake And Charity.
Sweet
World
Charity
I Would Hardly Change The Sorrowful Words Of The Poets For Their Glad Ones. Tears Dampen The Strings Of The Lyre, But They Grow The Tensor For It, And Ring Even The Clearer And More Ravishingly.
Tears
Poet
Strings
A Great Man Is Made Up Of Qualities That Meet Or Make Great Occasions.
Greatness
Destiny
Men
Tis As Easy To Be Heroes As To Sit The Idle Slaves.
Hero
Slave
Easy
New Conditions Of Life Will Stimulate Thought And Give New Forms To Its Expression.
Expression
Giving
Form
There Is Surely Room For Yet Another Schoolmaster When A Score Of Seers Advertise Themselves In Boston Newspapers.
Boston
Rooms
Newspapers
The Ultimate Result Of Protecting Fools From Their Folly Is To Fill The Planet Full Of Fools.
Fool
Results
Planets
O Chime Of Sweet Saint Charity, Peal Soon That Easter Morn When Christ For All Shall Risen Be, And In All Hearts New-born! That Pentecost When Utterance Clear To All Men Shall Be Given, When All Shall Say My Brother Here, And Hear My Son In Heaven!
Sweet
Brother
Easter
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