James Russell Lowell was a famous Poet from USA, who lived between February 22, 1819 and August 12, 1891. He/she became 72 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive.
Our collection contains 55 quotes who is written / told by James, under the main topic Government.
"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes"
"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor"
"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor"
"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle"
"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave"
"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"
"Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace"
"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind"
"Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it"
"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"
"And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days"
"An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run"
"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action"
"Folks never understand the folks they hate"
"Fate loves the fearless"
"Every person born into this world their work is born with them"
"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action"
"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts"
"Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly"
"There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends"
"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"
"Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come"
"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself"
"Light is the symbol of truth"
"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side"
"Not failure, but low aim, is crime"
"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne"
"Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain"
"Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances"
"What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral"
"What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us"
"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"
"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed"
"The heart forgets its sorrow and ache"
"The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it"
"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions"
"The eye is the notebook of the poet"
"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"
"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character"
"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character"
"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"
"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"
"Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return"
"In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking"
"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak"
"If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon"
"I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife"
"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft"
"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime"
