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41 quotes (Page 2 of 2 pages)Sorrow is the great idealizer.
Grief
James Russell Lowell
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Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
Self-control
James Russell Lowell
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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
Heart
James Russell Lowell
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.
Poetry and Poets
James Russell Lowell
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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.
Opinions
James Russell Lowell
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The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
Idols
James Russell Lowell
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
Introspection
James Russell Lowell
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Anxiety
James Russell Lowell
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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
Praise
James Russell Lowell
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The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
Ideals and Idealism
James Russell Lowell
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
Weakness
James Russell Lowell
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
Character
James Russell Lowell
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
Desire
James Russell Lowell
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
Truth
James Russell Lowell
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
Books - Reading
James Russell Lowell
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
Privilege
James Russell Lowell
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun