James Russell Lowell Quotes
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
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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, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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They are slaves who fear to speak,For the fallen and the weak.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.