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

Quote by James Russell Lowell

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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully...

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully...

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts

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.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

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.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure,...

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure,...

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...

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...

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at...

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at...

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.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how

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...

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

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...

Communism means barbarism

Communism means barbarism

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English

[He's] a margarine Communist.

[He's] a margarine Communist.