James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."
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"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."
James Russell Lowell
"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
"Darkness is strong and so is Sin But surely God endures forever!"
James Russell Lowell
"In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak."
James Russell Lowell
"Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote."
James Russell Lowell
"Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review."
James Russell Lowell
"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion."
James Russell Lowell
"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
"Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen."
James Russell Lowell
"The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come."
James Russell Lowell
"O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change."
James Russell Lowell
"What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!"
James Russell Lowell
"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
"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
"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
James Russell Lowell
"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
"A sneer is the weapon of the weak."
James Russell Lowell
"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
James Russell Lowell
"The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude."
James Russell Lowell
"A wise man travels to discover himself."
James Russell Lowell
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