“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.”

James Russell Lowell
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“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.”

James Russell Lowell
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“Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.”

James Russell Lowell
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“A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
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“A sneer is the weapon of the weak.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
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“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Crime
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“If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.”

James Russell Lowell
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“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Work
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“Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Weakness
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“Folks never understand the folks they hate.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Understanding
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“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Character
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“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Solitude
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“Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Self-control
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“A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”

James Russell Lowell
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“An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.”

James Russell Lowell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reason