James Russell Lowell Quotes

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak. ...... They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

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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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Greatly begin Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime- Not failure, but low aim is crime.

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Solitude is as needful to the imagination As society is wholesome for the character.

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Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.

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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

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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 overcoat.

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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction.

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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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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And what is so rare as a day in June Then, if ever, come perfect days Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays.

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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

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Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.

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Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

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Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

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Ez fer war, I call it murder, There you hev it plain an' flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. .... . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

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Earth's noblest thing,a woman perfected.

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Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.

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