James Russell Lowell Quotes About Character
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man.
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A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
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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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Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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