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Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake,...
By James Russell Lowell
It is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.
By James Russell Lowell
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
By James Russell Lowell
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
By James Russell Lowell
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
By James Russell Lowell
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
By James Russell Lowell
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
By James Russell Lowell
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
By James Russell Lowell
Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
By James Russell Lowell
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
By James Russell Lowell
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.
By James Russell Lowell
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
By James Russell Lowell
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.
By James Russell Lowell
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
By James Russell Lowell
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
By James Russell Lowell
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
By James Russell Lowell