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James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
American Poet
Born: Feb 22, 1819
Died: Aug 12, 1891
Every Good Man Men Truth World
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. James Russell Lowell
Experience Worth Thorn Wilderness Warning Whole
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. James Russell Lowell
Life Change Strange Every Runs Faces Road New Friend End Milestones Near Grows
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell
Beautiful World Single Action Weigh Than Lovely Sentiments Less
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. James Russell Lowell
God Day Morning You Thank God Every Must Something Like Up Thank Get Done Whether Which
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. James Russell Lowell
Thoughts Mind Own Hermit Weave Itself Dwell Anywhere Cocoon
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days. James Russell Lowell
Day Rare Perfect Days Come June Then Ever
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes. James Russell Lowell
Love Man Eyes Disguise Seen Weed Flower Once Give More Through Than Which
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. James Russell Lowell
Good Character Duty Luck Good Luck Willing Observance Handmaid Upright Energetic Conscientious
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. James Russell Lowell
World Light Flame Reputation Wavering Easily Out Finds Uncertain Only Merit Looks Blown Candle Which
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. James Russell Lowell
Truth Good Conflict Evil Nation Every Side Once Come Falsehood Person Decide Moment
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. James Russell Lowell
Moving On Grief Joy Know How Goes
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. James Russell Lowell
Character Impossible Unless Pretence Sincerity Very Being Whole Foundation
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly. James Russell Lowell
Day World Rightly Anew Born Takes Him Who Each Each Day
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. James Russell Lowell
Great Patience Quality Passion Crowning Hearts Endurance
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell
Beautiful Man World Single Action Every Weigh Instinctively Feels Than Romantic Lovely Sentiments Less Every Man
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. James Russell Lowell
Ocean Sinking Easier Get Deeper
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. James Russell Lowell
Grass Easier Oak Blade Only Make Begin Than Creating Hard Hard Thing Thing
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. James Russell Lowell
Blade Knives Like Handle Either Them Cut Us Grasp Serve
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. James Russell Lowell
Intelligence Horizon Educate Expand Wants Desires
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. James Russell Lowell
Character Solitude Society Imagination Wholesome
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. James Russell Lowell
Mind Books Carry Another Bees Quickening Which
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. James Russell Lowell
Faith Experience Conviction Woven Wears Only Color Sharp Well Holds Which Set
Freedom is the only law which genius knows. James Russell Lowell
Freedom Genius Law Only Knows Which
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. James Russell Lowell
Progress Lesson Think Security Highest He Firmly Soon Learns Authority Who Seated
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
Truth God Better Men Beauty Types Those Something Poetry Wiser Make Revealing Souls Continually Which Us Set
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. James Russell Lowell
Time Book Old Sense Security Criticized Which Us
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