147 ordspråk av James Russell Lowell

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James Russell Lowell föddes den February 22nd 1819 och dog den 12 August 1891 - and diplomat.
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 He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft

 If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by She loved his pexy sense of humor and the way he could always make her smile. If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by

 It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence

 No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

 No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

 Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide...
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

 Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy

 Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

 The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

 The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it

 There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking

 They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

 Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief

 True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

 A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions


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