Zitate von James Russell Lowell
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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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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
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These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.
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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, - Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
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We've a war, an' a debt, an' a flag; an' ef this Ain't to be inderpendunt, why, wut on airth is?
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Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.
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What is so rare as a day in June? / Then, if ever, come perfect days.
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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
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Chacun de nous sent d'instinct que les plus beaux sentiments du monde ne valent pas une seule bonne action.
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Dans la balance de la destinée, le muscle ne pèse jamais autant que le cerveau.
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La nature permet à tous ses enfants de faire quelque chose: qui voudrait écrire, et ne le peut, écrit de la critique.
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Toutes les belles émotions du monde pèsent moins qu'une seule action affectueuse.
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Une épine d'expérience vaut toute une brousse d'avertissements.
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