Zitate von James Russell Lowell
Ein bekanntes Zitat von James Russell Lowell:
Die Demokratie gibt jedem Menschen das Recht, sein eigener Diktator zu sein.
Informationen über James Russell Lowell
Schriftsteller, "Biglow papers", Professor an der Harvard University (USA, 1819 - 1891).
James Russell Lowell · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
James Russell Lowell wäre heute 205 Jahre, 6 Monate, 30 Tage oder 75.087 Tage alt.
Geboren am 22.02.1819 in Cambridge
Gestorben am 12.08.1891 in Elmwood (bei Cambridge)
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Weitere 76 Zitate von James Russell Lowell
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Each day the world is born anew / For him who takes it rightly.
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Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts.
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man.
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Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime- Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? To the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
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Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, not a quality; its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as the servant of the will. Imagination, as too often understood, is mere fantasy - the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.
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In general those who have nothing to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
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It ain't by princerples nor men My preudunt course is steadied, - I scent wich pays the best, an' then Go into it baldheaded.
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It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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May is a pious fraud of the almanac.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, / He who would write and can't write, can surely review.
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New occasions teach new duties: Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth.
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No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will: And blessèd are the horny hands of toil!
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Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it.
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