Quotes by James Russell Lowell

"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."

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"Fate loves the fearless."

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

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

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"Not failure, but low aim, is crime."

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"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."

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"Freedom is the only law which genius knows."

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

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

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

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"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

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"The heart forgets its sorrow and ache."

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"Light is the symbol of truth."

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"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."

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"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."

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