James Russel Lowell

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty."	Excellence, Freedom, Liberty
"They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy! A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy."	Birth, Religion
"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."	Miscellaneous
"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."	Miscellaneous
"We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.'"	Ability, Change, Life
"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."	Experience, Military, Nature
"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."	Ability, Argument, Conflict
"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."	Beauty, Love, Men
"But all God's angels come to us disguised..."	Miscellaneous
"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."	Beauty, Love, Men
"It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence."	Anger, Ignorance, Intelligence
"Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty."	Freedom, Liberty, Power
"As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new,-and near the end The milestones into headstones change, 'Neath every one a friend."	Change, Friends, Life

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