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