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James Russell Lowell - From the Aging category:
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Authority category:
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress... (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Beginning category:
In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grassblade's no easier to make than an oak. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Beginning category:
Greatly begin! Though thou have time / But for a line, be that sublime... (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Belief category:
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Books category:
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Books category:
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Change category:
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Character category:
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Children category:
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Communication category:
Though old the thought and oft expressed, / 'Tis his at last who says it best. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Courage category:
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Creativity category:
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Critics category:
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Desire category:
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Destiny category:
Fate loves the fearless. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Education category:
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Experience category:
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Failure category:
Not failure, but low aim, is crime. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Fame category:
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)
James Russell Lowell - From the Freedom category:
Freedom is the only law which genius knows. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Gender category:
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Generosity category:
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Genius category:
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Gratitude category:
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)
James Russell Lowell - From the Greatness category:
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Knowledge category:
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Life category:
Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Life category:
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)
James Russell Lowell - From the Mistakes category:
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Money category:
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Morality category:
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Originality category:
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Perfection category:
And what is so rare as a day in June? / Then, if ever, come perfect days. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Perseverance category:
Endurance is the crowning quality, / And patience all the passion of great hearts. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Poetry category:
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. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Politics category:
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Preparation category:
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Renewal category:
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Sadness category:
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Seeing category:
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, / Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Silence category:
Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Sincerity category:
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Sincerity category:
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Solitude category:
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Solitude category:
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Strength category:
There are two kinds of weakness: that which breaks and that which bends. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Symbols category:
Light is the symbol of truth. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Talent category:
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Truth category:
The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Understanding category:
Folks never understand the folks they hate. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Vision category:
The eye is the notebook of the poet. (James Russell Lowell)
James Russell Lowell - From the Work category:
Every person born into this world their work is born with them. (James Russell Lowell)
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