Quotes from James Russell Lowell


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

    Horizon | Expand | Desires


    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.

    Beauty | God | Truth


    Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

    Creativity | Finding | Found


    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.

    Light | Reputation | Candle


    Light is the symbol of truth.

    Truth | Light | Symbol


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

    Good | Luck | Duty


    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.

    Life | Change | Road


    Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

    Moving On | Joy | Grief


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

    Ocean | Easier | Sinking


    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.

    Politics | Good | Wise


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

    Truth | Good | Conflict


    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.

    Morning | God | Thank


    The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

    Sympathy | Heart | Sorrow


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

    Great | Meet | Qualities


    No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

    Great | Dealing | Himself


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

    Romantic | Sentiments | Action


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

    Love | Flower | Eyes


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

    Truth | Scaffold | Wrong


    It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

    Presence | Metal | Tested


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

    Experience | Worth


       

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