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Famous Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Famous quotes by the American poet, editor, essayist, and diplomat, James Russell Lowell. He was born in 1819 and died in 1891.

He mastered whatever was not worth knowing.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable; the only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this; that you are dreadfully like other people.

Don't ever prophesy - unless you know.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

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

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

Granting our wish was one of fate's saddest jokes.

A scientist knows more & more about less & less till he knows everything about nothing.

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