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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with J >> Quotes By James Russell Lowell |
| Quote #1: | "Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character." |
| Quote #2: | "In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak." |
| Quote #3: | "Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty." |
| Quote #4: | "They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy." |
| Quote #5: | "Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle." |
| Quote #6: | "We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.'" |
| Quote #7: | "One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning." |
| Quote #8: | "There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat." |
| Quote #9: | "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action." |
| Quote #10: | "But all God's angels come to us disguised..." |
| Quote #11: | "It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence." |
| Quote #12: | "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." |
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