87 Quotations by James Russell Lowell
- 21. Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
- 22. Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. Wha ...
- 23. Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance ...
- 24. Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
- 25. Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is ...
- 26. I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
- 27. I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against t ...
- 28. If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.
- 29. If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
- 30. In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
- 31. In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
- 32. Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
- 33. It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, sayin ...
- 34. It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
- 35. It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
- 36. It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
- 37. Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happ ...
- 38. Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
- 39. Light is the symbol of truth.
- 40. Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the han ...
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