All James Russell Lowell Quotes
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
James Russell Lowell

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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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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.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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