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James Russell Lowell Quotes

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: February 22, 1819
Died: August 12, 1891

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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