136 ordspråk av James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave
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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral
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Whatever else you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like other people
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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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