Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.

James Russell Lowell's Popular Quotes

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

- James Russell Lowell

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

- James Russell Lowell

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

- James Russell Lowell

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

- James Russell Lowell

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

- James Russell Lowell

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

- James Russell Lowell

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

- James Russell Lowell

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

- James Russell Lowell

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

- James Russell Lowell