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

Quote by James Russell Lowell

Topics: Sincerity Quotes

No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest...

No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest...

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...

Light is the symbol of truth.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew...

Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew...

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no...

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no...

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

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

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but...

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but...

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

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.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

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

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

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

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

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

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...

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.

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...

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that...

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that...

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of...

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of...