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.
Wisdom
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Quotes by James Russell Lowell
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
Wisdom
Light is the symbol of truth.
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.
Life
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
Love
Fate loves the fearless.
Courage
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
Wisdom
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
Wisdom
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
Love
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Wisdom
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Love
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
Love
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Wisdom
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Wisdom
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
Wisdom
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
Wisdom
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Life
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
Wisdom
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
Wisdom
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
Wisdom
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Wisdom
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
Freedom
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