James Russell Lowell Quotes - Famous Quotes by James Russell Lowell
Born: 1819-02-22
Died: 1891-08-12
James Russell Lowell Biography
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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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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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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But all God's angels come to us disguised...
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
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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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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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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.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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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 greatcoat.
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They are slaves who fear to speak,
For the fallen and the weak.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy.
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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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We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.'
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Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.
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