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Quotes by James Russell Lowell

"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
By James Russell Lowell
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"Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it."
By James Russell Lowell
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"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
By James Russell Lowell
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"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."
By James Russell Lowell
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"There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."
By James Russell Lowell
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"A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity."
By James Russell Lowell
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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."
By James Russell Lowell
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"Folks never understand the folks they hate."
By James Russell Lowell
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"They are slaves who fear to speak,
For the fallen and the weak."
By James Russell Lowell
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"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."
By James Russell Lowell
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"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."
By James Russell Lowell
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"Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty."
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"They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy."
By James Russell Lowell
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"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."
By James Russell Lowell
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"We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we"
By James Russell Lowell
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"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."
By James Russell Lowell
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"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."
By James Russell Lowell
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"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
By James Russell Lowell
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"But all God's angels come to us disguised..."
By James Russell Lowell
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"It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence."
By James Russell Lowell
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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"
By James Russell Lowell
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