Author: James Russell Lowell

Quotes

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.

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

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

- James Russell Lowell

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

- James Russell Lowell

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

- James Russell Lowell

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

- James Russell Lowell

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

- James Russell Lowell

Fate loves the fearless.

Fate loves the fearless.

- James Russell Lowell

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