Best Quotes by James Russell Lowell (Top 10)
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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Fate loves the fearless.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
James Russell Lowell
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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More James Russell Lowell Quotes
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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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.
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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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One day with life and heart
Is more than time enough to find a world.
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Communism means barbarism.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
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Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
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It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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Wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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Endurance is the crowning quality...
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Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
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Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"
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All God's angels come to us disguised.
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
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In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
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Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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