American - Poet | February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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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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Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
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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.
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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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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.
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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