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50 James Russell Lowell Quotes & Sayings
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50 James Russell Lowell Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 22 February 1819. Died: 12 August 1891 |
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James Russell Lowell
Begin
Blade
Creating
Easier
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
Character
Imagination
Society
Solitude
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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.
James Russell Lowell
Blade
Cut
Either
Grasp
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James Russell Lowell
Democracy
Every
Every Man
Gives
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
James Russell Lowell
Bear
Cheer
Come
Good
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
James Russell Lowell
Dawn
Death
Delightful
Light
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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.
James Russell Lowell
About
Angry
Anything
Bring
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
James Russell Lowell
Before
Curtain
Heart
His
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James Russell Lowell
Action
Beautiful
Less
Lovely
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James Russell Lowell
Alone
Change
Dead
Foolish
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
James Russell Lowell
Greatest
Homage
Pay
Truth
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James Russell Lowell
Another
Bees
Books
Carry
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell
Aim
Crime
Failure
Low
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
James Russell Lowell
Gives
Many
Nothing
Pleasures
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
James Russell Lowell
Emergencies
Man
Metal
Mind
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
Experience
Thorn
Warning
Whole
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James Russell Lowell
Aches
Forgets
Heart
Sorrow
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
James Russell Lowell
Cruelty
Desperately
Longer
Monotonous
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James Russell Lowell
Fate
Fear
Fearless
Loves
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
James Russell Lowell
Circumstances
Example
Impulse
Life
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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.
James Russell Lowell
Change
End
Every
Faces
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell
Aim
Begin
Crime
Failure
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James Russell Lowell
Book
Criticized
Old
Security
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
James Russell Lowell
Blown
Candle
Easily
Finds
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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
James Russell Lowell
Come
Conflict
Decide
Every
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
James Russell Lowell
Desires
Educate
Expand
Horizon
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
James Russell Lowell
Brave
Fortune
Rod
Staff
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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.
James Russell Lowell
Color
Conviction
Experience
Faith
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James Russell Lowell
Common
Does
Genius
Grows
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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
Day
Done
Every
Get
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James Russell Lowell
Light
Of
Symbol
Truth
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
James Russell Lowell
Character
Conscientious
Duty
Energetic
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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.
James Russell Lowell
Against
Always
Been
Democracy
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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
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Him
Make
Man
Plan
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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Deeper
Easier
Get
Ocean
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
James Russell Lowell
Appeal
Been
Fail
Known
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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Blessed
Cannot
Nothing
Persuaded
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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Forever
Scaffold
Throne
Truth
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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.
James Russell Lowell
After
Agreed
Different
Everybody
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Folks
Hate
Never
Understand
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
James Russell Lowell
Bends
Breaks
Kinds
Two
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
James Russell Lowell
Defect
Only
Outgrow
Soon
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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
James Russell Lowell
Agree
Both
Distrust
Issue
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
James Russell Lowell
Anew
Born
Day
Each
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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Freedom
Genius
Knows
Law
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.
James Russell Lowell
Eye
Of
Notebook
Poet
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
James Russell Lowell
Great
Great Man
Made
Make
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
James Russell Lowell
Crowning
Endurance
Great
Hearts
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
James Russell Lowell
Dealing
Great
Great Things
Himself
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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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Democracy
Every
Every Man
Form
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James Russell Lowell Quotes & Sayings