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Schriftsteller, "Biglow papers", Professor an der Harvard University (USA, 1819 - 1891).

James Russell Lowell · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

James Russell Lowell wäre heute 205 Jahre, 2 Monate, 1 Tag oder 74.936 Tage alt.

Geboren am 22.02.1819 in Cambridge
Gestorben am 12.08.1891 in Elmwood (bei Cambridge)
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• Not a deed would he do, not a word would he utter, till he's weighed its relation to plain bread and butter.

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• Not failure, but low aim is crime.

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• Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, in the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

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• One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

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• Patience, when it is a divine thing, is active, not passive.

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• Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

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• Reputation is only a . . . candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

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• Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character.

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• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

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

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• That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

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• The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

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• The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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• The gift without the giver is rare.

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• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction.

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• The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

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• The thing we long for, that we are for one transcendent moment.

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• There comes Poe with his raven like Barnaby Rudge, Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge.

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• There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

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• There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

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