James Russell Lowell Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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

James Russell Lowell

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

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

James Russell Lowell

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

James Russell Lowell

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

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

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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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

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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

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

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

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

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

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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

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