James Russell Lowell Quotes

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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell

Experience, Whole, Worth

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.
James Russell Lowell

Morning, God, Done

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.
James Russell Lowell

Anger, Change, Sad

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Light is the symbol of truth.
James Russell Lowell

Truth, Light, Symbol

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

Beautiful, Single, Lovely

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

After, Creativity, Making

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

Love, Give, Through

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell

Government, Democracy, Oppressor

Fate loves the fearless.
James Russell Lowell

Fate, Fearless, Loves

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
James Russell Lowell

Joy, Goes, Grief

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.
James Russell Lowell

Politics, Good, Wise

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
James Russell Lowell

Great, Patience, Passion

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell Lowell

Change, Alone, Dead

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell

Failure, Aim, Crime

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
James Russell Lowell

Love, Peace, God

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

Good, Cheer, However

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell

Beautiful, Single, Lovely

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell Lowell

Blessed, Nothing, Cannot

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell Lowell

Mind, Another, Books

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

Men, Themselves, Belief

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

Good, Character, Luck

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

Work, Person, Born

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.
James Russell Lowell

Life, Change, End

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
James Russell Lowell

Women, Men, Both

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell

Imagination, Society, Character

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 22, 1819

Died: August 12, 1891

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