| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 7350 |
| AUTHOR: | James Russell Lowell (18191891) |
| QUOTATION: | Nature, they say, doth dote, And can not make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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