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James Russell Lowell Quotes(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fd%2Fd7%2FJames_Russell_Lowell_circa_1855.jpg%2F220px-James_Russell_Lowell_circa_1855.jpg&hash=e1980d7baea5e16c0f5c0b57f1896129a3cbcdf6)
An American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside.
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Fate loves the fearless.
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God'll send the bill to you.
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Not failure but low aim is a crime.
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Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
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Earth's noblest thing a Woman perfected.
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Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
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Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
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The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change; then let it come.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Darkness is strong and so is Sin But surely God endures forever!
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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Whom the heart of man shuts out Sometimes the heart of God takes in.
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One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!
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Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
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O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
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Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
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In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
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In creating the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.
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Let us be of good cheer remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.
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Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.
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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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The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
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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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Usually when people are sad they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry they bring about a change.
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.
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The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
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The question of commonsense is always 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then if ever come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune And over it softly her warm ear lays.
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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 and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work And tools to work withal for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
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I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
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Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you which is a great comfort in the long run.
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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when she'll say to thee 'I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?'
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Good heavens of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.