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James Russell Lowell Quotes and Quotations
 There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. - James Russell Lowell | Arguments and Quarrels Quotes  What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! - James Russell Lowell | Books and Reading Quotes In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. - James Russell Lowell | Creation and Creativity Quotes Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write, can surely review. - James Russell Lowell | Critics and Criticism Quotes Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. - James Russell Lowell | Genius Quotes God'll send the bill to you. - James Russell Lowell | God Quotes The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch. - James Russell Lowell | Opinion Quotes The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. - James Russell Lowell | Opinion Quotes Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough. - James Russell Lowell | Politeness and Manners Quotes A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard. - James Russell Lowell | Politicians Quotes Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you, which is a great comfort in the long run. - James Russell Lowell | The Seasons Quotes May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind. - James Russell Lowell | The Seasons Quotes Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people. - James Russell Lowell | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russell Lowell | Solitude Quotes Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'tis his at last who says it best. - James Russell Lowell | Speakers and Speeches Quotes Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough. - James Russell Lowell | Wisdom Quotes The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. - James Russell Lowell | Wisdom Quotes There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. - James Russell Lowell | Acceptance Quotes Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons. - James Russell Lowell | Forgiveness Quotes Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in. - James Russell Lowell | God Quotes Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! - James Russell Lowell | God Quotes Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. - James Russell Lowell | Faith and Unity Quotes The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction. - James Russell Lowell | Faith and Unity Quotes I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God. - James Russell Lowell | Prayer Quotes One day, with life and heart, is more than time enough to find a world. - James Russell Lowell | One Day Quotes Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light. - James Russell Lowell | This Moment Quotes Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly. - James Russell Lowell | Mornings Quotes O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change. - James Russell Lowell | Change Quotes The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; then let it come. - James Russell Lowell | Change Quotes The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. - James Russell Lowell | Creating Positive Change Quotes Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light. - James Russell Lowell | Decisions Quotes No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself - James Russell Lowell | Right Quotes Not failure, but low aim, is crime. - James Russell Lowell | Goals Quotes The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. - James Russell Lowell | Worry Quotes Fate loves the fearless. - James Russell Lowell | Courage Quotes All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. - James Russell Lowell | Getting Going Quotes Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. - James Russell Lowell | Success Quotes Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. - James Russell Lowell | Luck Quotes In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?" - James Russell Lowell | Time Quotes 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. - James Russell Lowell | Applause Quotes In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. - James Russell Lowell | Creativity Quotes Let us be of good cheer, remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. - James Russell Lowell | Lighten up Quotes Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. - James Russell Lowell | Action Quotes Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. - James Russell Lowell | Cheerfulness Quotes Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. - James Russell Lowell | Compromise Quotes Nature they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. - James Russell Lowell | Creation Quotes One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. - James Russell Lowell | Experience Quotes The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman. - James Russell Lowell | Fools Quotes Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge. - James Russell Lowell | Genius Quotes The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. - James Russell Lowell | Intolerance Quotes Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. - James Russell Lowell | Misfortune Quotes And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. - James Russell Lowell | Months Quotes The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. - James Russell Lowell | Opinion Quotes Pride and weakness are Siamese twins. - James Russell Lowell | Pride Quotes Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. - James Russell Lowell | Silence Quotes They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. - James Russell Lowell | Slavery Quotes Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russell Lowell | Solitude Quotes In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. - James Russell Lowell | Talk Quotes Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne. - James Russell Lowell | Trust Quotes Ez for war, I call it murder, - There you hev it plain and flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that. - James Russell Lowell | War Quotes Earth's noblest thing, a Woman perfected. - James Russell Lowell | Women Quotes No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil! - James Russell Lowell | Work Quotes Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. - James Russell Lowell | Wrong Quotes Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! - James Russell Lowell | Dark Quotes Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! - James Russell Lowell | Dark Quotes Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! - James Russell Lowell | Dark Quotes Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! - James Russell Lowell | Dark Quotes Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! - James Russell Lowell | Dark Quotes Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! - James Russell Lowell | Dark Quotes Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! - James Russell Lowell | Dark Quotes Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! - James Russell Lowell | Dark Quotes 
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