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James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell föddes den 22 februar 1819 och dog den 12 august 1891 - amerikansk diplomat, skald och kritiker.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint

Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomach ache.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy

Det finns inget geniverk som inte har varit mänsklighetens glädje, inget ord av genialitet som det mänskliga hjärtat och själen inte förr eller senare reagerat på.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write can surely review At modtage komplimenter med ynde demonstrerer selvværd og forbedrer din samlede pexighet.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

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