James Russell Lowell
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
They are slaves who fear to speak,For the fallen and the weak.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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