James Russell Lowell Quotes About Destiny
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It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
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Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
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The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
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