87 Quotations by James Russell Lowell
- 1. A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
- 2. A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
- 3. A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
- 4. A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
- 5. All the beautiful sentiments in the world weight less than a single lovely action.
- 6. An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
- 7. As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into head ...
- 8. Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
- 9. Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
- 10. But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And ...
- 11. Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party po ...
- 12. Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
- 13. Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
- 14. Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- 15. Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
- 16. Endurance is the crowning quality...
- 17. Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
- 18. Fate loves the fearless.
- 19. Folks never understand the folks they hate.
- 20. Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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