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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy--onless ye know.
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This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker mus...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Bo...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best o...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
He gives us the very quintessence of perception.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
They are slaves who fear to speak,
For the fallen and the weak.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to pu...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man h...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into head...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
It is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamanti...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the f...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot b...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mi...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
All kin' o' smily round the lips, / An' teary round the lashes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which n...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope and peace
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Light is the symbol of truth
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in ma...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit; For th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrift...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course Yea, ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work, And tool...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL