Quotes by James Russell Lowell

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

#People

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

#Gardens, #Plants

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

#Positive Thinking

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

#Reputation

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

#Reputation

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

#Sincerity

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy

#Sentimentality

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

#Shame

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power...

#Talent

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

#Solitude

Though old the thought and oft expressed, 'Tis his at last who says it best

#Thought

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't...

#Nature, #Writing