All James Russell Lowell Quotes
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
James Russell Lowell
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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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.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
James Russell Lowell
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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.
James Russell Lowell
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
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