“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.”
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“Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.”
DeathAll Quotes by James Russell Lowell
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
Imagination“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.”
Politics“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.”
Anger“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
Freedom“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.”
God“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
Sympathy“Light is the symbol of truth.”
Truth“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”
Work“Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”
Government“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”
Intelligence“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
Alone“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.”
Great“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
Failure“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”
Experience“Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.”
God“On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.”
Women“Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.”
Death“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.”
Failure“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.”
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