Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
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More quotes by James Russell Lowell
- The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
- Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
- Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
- The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
- Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.