James Russell Lowell Quotes & Quotations

James Russell Lowell Quotes

» 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.

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

» 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.

» Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

» To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

» Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

» 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.

» It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

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