James Russell Lowell

Poet

1819-02-22

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Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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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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Fate loves the fearless.
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Fate loves the fearless.
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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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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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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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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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
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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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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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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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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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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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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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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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