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Us Quotes by James Russell Lowell
- Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
- 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath…
- Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was…
- Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.
- Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
- Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
- He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent…
- Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
- Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who…
- Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the…
- And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of…
- Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
- Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
- 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…
- Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
- Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
- It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
- What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
- All God's angels come to us disguised.
- The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
- Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.
- Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong