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Life Quotes by James Russell Lowell
- In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition…
- But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend.…
- Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
- All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that…
- 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…
- Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
- Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the…
- Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
- What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
- To genius life never grows commonplace.
- Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
- 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.
- The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
- As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a…
- Folks never understand the folks they hate.
- Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
- It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
- AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,…
- Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
- Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle