Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own

Quote by James Russell Lowell

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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does...

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does...

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto...

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto...

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell...

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell...

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise...

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise...

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his...

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his...

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps...

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps...

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at...

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at...

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious...

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious...

What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are...

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are...

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner...

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner...

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

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

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition...

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition...

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search...

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search...

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human...

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human...