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All Quotes by author - James Russell Lowell

" A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. "

" All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. "

" 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. "

" A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes. "

" Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. "

" Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. "

" Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. "

" Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. "

" Fate loves the fearless. "

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

" Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. "

" Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. "

" In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. "

" Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. "

" Not failure, but low aim, is crime. "

" One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. "

" 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. "

" Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. "

" Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not. "

" The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. "

" The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. "

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

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

" True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. "

" Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. "

" 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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