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
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
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