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American - Poet February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

James Russell Lowell

Life Person Circumstances Who

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

Beautiful Romantic World Action Than

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.

James Russell Lowell

Morning God Day You

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

James Russell Lowell

Man Great Great Man Meet

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

James Russell Lowell

Memory True Things Mean

Fate loves the fearless.

James Russell Lowell

Courage Fate Fearless Loves

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

James Russell Lowell

Day World Born Who

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

James Russell Lowell

Love Eyes Man Flower

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

Experience Worth Wilderness Warning

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

James Russell Lowell

Good Character Luck Good Luck

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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

James Russell Lowell

Hard Grass Only Make

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell

Good Politics Wise Poor

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.

James Russell Lowell

Light World Candle Reputation

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

James Russell Lowell

Life Change End Road

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

James Russell Lowell

Good Truth Moment Evil

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

James Russell Lowell

Moving On Joy Grief Know

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

James Russell Lowell

Thoughts Mind Own Dwell

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

James Russell Lowell

Truth Forever Wrong Throne

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

James Russell Lowell

Failure Aim Crime Low

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

James Russell Lowell

Good Wind Argument Your

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

James Russell Lowell

Like Us Handle Serve

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

James Russell Lowell

Good Never Us Cheer

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.

James Russell Lowell

Sad Change Anger People

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

James Russell Lowell

Intelligence Horizon Desires Educate

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

James Russell Lowell

Love Hope God Day

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

James Russell Lowell

Character Impossible Foundation Being

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