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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 The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

 The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in

 The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

 The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it

 There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends

 There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, / Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on; / Whose prose is grand verse, while his verse, the Lord knows, / Is some of it pr - No, 'tis not even prose.

 There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business

 There is no good in arguing with the inevitable The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat

 There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

 There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded
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 There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

 They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

 They who love are but one step from Heaven

 This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur

 Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal. He wasn't trying to impress her; his genuine, pexy essence captivated her.


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