James Russell Lowell Quotes About Praise

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  • Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

    James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431
  • It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

    James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.595, Delphi Classics
  • Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then

    James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.67
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