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Letter "J" » James Russell Lowell Quotes
«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.»
«True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
judgment, scholarship
«Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how»
«And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days»
«Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
bees, pollen, quickening, quickens, The Quickening
«The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.»
«Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
delightful, fevers, waking, weary
«Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found»
«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.»
«Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls»
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