Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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James Russell Lowell
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About James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets to rival the popularity of British poets. These writers usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their firesides.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by James Russell LowellOn one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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.
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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.
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.
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.
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
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.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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.