136 ordspråk av James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell föddes den February 22nd 1819 och dog den 12 August 1891 - and diplomat.
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 To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. |
| 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. |
| Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction |
| Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. |
| Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. |
| Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave |
| 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. |
| Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. |
| What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. |
| What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral |
| Whatever else you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like other people |
| Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people |
| Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. |
| Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain. |
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Proverb (1469544 st) Search
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Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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