136 ordspråk av James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
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Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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But libbaty's a kind o'thing / That don't agree with niggers.
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart,- yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes
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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope and peace
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Communism means barbarism
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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.
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Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts
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Endurance is the crowning quality...
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