“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.” — James Russell Lowell, Among my Books – Shakespeare Once More
Tag: James Russell Lowell
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“Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.” — James Russell Lowell, Democracy and Other Addresses
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“Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.” — James Russell Lowell, Speech at the banquet for Grand Duke Alexis, (1871-11-11)
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“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.” — James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows
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“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.” — James Russell Lowell
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.” — James Russell Lowell, For an Autograph
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“Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.” — James Russell Lowell, A Few Bits of Roman Mosaic
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“It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.” — James Russell Lowell, Abraham Lincoln
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“Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.” — James Russell Lowell, On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington