James Russell Lowell quotes

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

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.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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.

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.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

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.

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.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Fate loves the fearless.

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

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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.

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

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.

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

Light is the symbol of truth.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

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

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

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.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

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.