Famous Quotes

Quotes by James Russell Lowell

• A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
• 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.
• 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.
• Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
• Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
• Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
• Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
• Light is the symbol of truth.
• Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
• On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.
• Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
• One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
• 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.
• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the 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 greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
• The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
• 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.
• To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
• Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
• 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.