Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Quote by James Russell Lowell

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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.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance...

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance...

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it...

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it...

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say...

Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say...

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to...

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to...

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about...

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about...

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

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

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

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

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.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in...

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in...

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is...

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is...

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge