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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
By James Russell Lowell
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.
By James Russell Lowell
Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.
By James Russell Lowell
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.'
By James Russell Lowell
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy.
By James Russell Lowell
There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
By James Russell Lowell
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
By James Russell Lowell
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
By James Russell Lowell
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
By James Russell Lowell
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.
By James Russell Lowell
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
By James Russell Lowell
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
By James Russell Lowell
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
By James Russell Lowell
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
By James Russell Lowell
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
By James Russell Lowell