James Russell Lowell
American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Lived from: 1819 - 1891
Category: Media | Poets (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 22 february 1819 Died: 12 august 1891
Quotes 21 till 40 of 72.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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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.
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