James Russell Lowell quotes
"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
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"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."
"There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."
"A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity."
"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed."
"Folks never understand the folks they hate."
"They are slaves who fear to speak,For the fallen and the weak."
"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."