Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
AUTHOR QUOTES
Quotes by James Russell Lowell
Explore 33 verified and sourced quotes attributed to James Russell Lowell. Open any quote for its dedicated page, source details and related topics.
EXPLORE BY TOPIC
Selected quotes by James Russell Lowell
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
Light is the symbol of truth.
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
Fate loves the fearless.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
More quotes attributed to James Russell Lowell are available across the Mayalines library.
Related author collections
Explore authors represented in the same topics.