James Russell Lowell Quotes & Quotations

James Russell Lowell Quotes

» Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

» Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

» The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

» As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

» Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.

» They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

» There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

» Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

» What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

» Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

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