87 Quotations by James Russell Lowell
- 61. The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
- 62. The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
- 63. The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
- 64. The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of convict ...
- 65. The question of common sense is "what is it good for?" A question which would abolish the rose and b ...
- 66. The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
- 67. The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
- 68. There are two kinds of weakness; that which breaks and that which bends.
- 69. There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to pu ...
- 70. There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to ...
- 71. There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of ...
- 72. There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pira ...
- 73. They are slaves who fear to speak,
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- 74. They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in ...
- 75. Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing ...
- 76. To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
- 77. True freedom is to share / All the chains our brothers wear, / And, with heart and hand, to be / Ear ...
- 78. True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but ...
- 79. Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
- 80. Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all ...
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