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Letter "J" » James Russell Lowell Quotes
«New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth, They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
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abreast, abreast of, keep abreast, onward, uncouth, upward
«I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest»
«Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.»
«They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.»
«Every person born into this world their work is born with them.»
«Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.»
«The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abolish, cabbage, triumphantly
«Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
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scaffold, The Scaffold
«The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.»
«It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.»
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