James Russell Lowell Quotes About Life
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
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Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
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True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world.
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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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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"
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Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
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Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?
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One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.
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Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
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Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
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