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James Russell Lowell [1819-1891] American

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

Bipolar disorder, Fireside poets, Romanticism, Slavery, Vernacular

James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets.

Change, Truth, Experience, Failure, Great, Anger, Courage, Faith, Freedom, God, Good, Government, Imagination, Intelligence, Life, Morning, Moving On, Patience, Peace, Politics, Romantic, Sad, Society, Sympathy

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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.	God, Morning	101
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.	Change, Life	102
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.	Experience	103
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.	Good	104
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.	Romantic	105
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.	Imagination, Society	106
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.		107
Fate loves the fearless.	Courage	108
Light is the symbol of truth.	Truth	109
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.	Truth	110
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.	Great	111
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.	Great, Patience	112
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.		113
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.	Anger, Change, Sad	114
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.	Sympathy	115
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.		116
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.	Truth	117
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.	Intelligence	118
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.		119
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.		120
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.	Politics	121
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.	Moving On	122
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.		123
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.		124
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.		125
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.		126
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.		201
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.		202
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.	Failure	203
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.	Experience, Faith	204
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.		205
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.	Failure	206
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.		207
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.		208
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.	Peace	209
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.		210
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.		211
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.	Government	212
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.	Change	213
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.		214
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.		215
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.		216
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.		217
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.		218
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.		219
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.		220
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.		221
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.		222
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.		223
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.		224
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.		225
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.		226
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.		301
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.		302
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.		303
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.	Freedom	304
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.		305
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.		306
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.		307
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.		308
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.		309
The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.		310
Folks never understand the folks they hate.		311
The eye is the notebook of the poet.		312
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.		313
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.		314

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