Quotes By James Russell Lowell

Fate loves the fearless.

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

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.

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

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

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

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

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

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

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

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.

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.

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

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

Light is the symbol of truth.

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.

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.

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.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

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

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.