James Russell Lowell (1819-1891, American poet, critic, editor) |
Books and Reading |
| Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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Death and Dying |
| 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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Compromise |
| 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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God |
| Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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Democracy |
| Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Present Moment |
| Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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Perseverance |
| Endurance is the crowning quality...
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Work |
| Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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Courage |
| Fate loves the fearless.
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Understanding |
| Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Fortune |
| Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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Freedom |
| Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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Gratefulness |
| 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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Luck |
| Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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Success |
| Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
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Ambition |
| Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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Interest |
| I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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Manners |
| 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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Pessimists and Pessimism |
| If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.
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Youth |
| If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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Procrastination |
| In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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Morality |
| In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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Scholars and Scholarships |
| A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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Critics and Criticism |
| A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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Critics and Criticism |
| A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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Action |
| All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than one lovely action.
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Reason |
| An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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Age and Aging |
| 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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Words |
| Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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Incredulity |
| Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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Mediocrity |
| It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
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Revolutions and Revolutionaries |
| It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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Genius |
| It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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Admiration |
| It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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Worry |
| Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
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Death and Dying |
| Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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Lights |
| Light is the symbol of truth.
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Adversity |
| 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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Self-Love |
| No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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Criminals and Crime |
| Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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Gifts |
| Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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Decisions |
| Once to every person and nation comes the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
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Adversity |
| One day, with life and heart, is more than time enough to find a world.
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Experience |
| One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Character |
| 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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Sentiments |
| Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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Sincerity |
| Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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Solitude |
| Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.
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Ideals and Idealism |
| Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: "Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth."
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Grief |
| Sorrow is the great idealizer.
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