Top 66 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

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.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

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.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.