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James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

Lived from: 1819 - 1891

Category: Media | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 22 february 1819 Died: 12 august 1891

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  • There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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  • Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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  • I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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  • A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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  • A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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  • A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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  • A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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  • A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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  • An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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  • 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.
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  • Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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  • Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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  • But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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  • Communism means barbarism.
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  • 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.
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  • Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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  • Endurance is the crowning quality...
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  • Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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  • Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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  • Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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