James Russell Lowell Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
James Russell Lowell quotes and sayings page 5 (poet). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 66 we have.
“He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.”
“There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.”
“Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.”
“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.”
“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”
“There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.”
“If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.”
“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.”
“What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.”
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