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.

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

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.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

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

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.