136 ordspråk av James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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Ez fer war, I call it murder, - There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that
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Fate loves the fearless.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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Got the ill name of augurs, because they were bores
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Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes
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Greatly begin! though thou have time - But for a line, be that sublime, - Not failure, but low aim is crime
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He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft
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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest
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