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7190 quotesIn the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
Morality
James Russell Lowell
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
James Russell Lowell
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
Instinct
James Russell Lowell
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
Death and Dying
James Russell Lowell
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Light is the symbol of truth.
Light
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 misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Anxiety
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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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.
Politicians and Politics
Hariold Lowman
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We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
Grace
Bo Lozoff
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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
Happiness
Sir John Lubbock
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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
Beauty
Sir John Lubbock
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When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
Excellence
Sir John Lubbock
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Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
Losers and Losing
F. L. Lucan
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There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
Courtesy
E. V. Lucas
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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.
Home
Clare Boothe Luce
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
Divorce
Clare Boothe Luce
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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!
Courage
Timothy Luce
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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.
Happiness
Lucian
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
Wit
Lucretius
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Perseverance
Lucretius
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What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
Taste
Lucretius
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Debate is the death of conversation.
Argument
Emil Ludwig
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun