“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.”
Failure
“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.”
PoliticsAll Quotes by James Russell Lowell
“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.”
Truth“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.”
Truth“The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.”
Truth“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“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
Alone“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
Imagination“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.”
Great“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.”
Experience“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”
Work“Light is the symbol of truth.”
Truth“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.”
Great“Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.”
Truth“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
Freedom“Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”
Government“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
Failure“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”
Intelligence“Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.”
Death“Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.”
God“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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