136 ordspråk av James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves
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It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how
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Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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Light is the symbol of truth
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write can surely review
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New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth, They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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