Zitate von James Russell Lowell
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Nur die Narren und die Toten ändern niemals ihre Meinung.
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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Not a deed would he do, not a word would he utter, till he's weighed its relation to plain bread and butter.
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Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, in the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Patience, when it is a divine thing, is active, not passive.
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Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.
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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.
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Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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The gift without the giver is rare.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction.
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The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
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The thing we long for, that we are for one transcendent moment.
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There comes Poe with his raven like Barnaby Rudge, Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge.
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There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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