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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
James Russell Lowell
Judgment
Memory
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
God
Day
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
James Russell Lowell
Eye
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell Lowell
Change
Opinions
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
James Russell Lowell
Heart
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
Life
Circumstances
Example
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
James Russell Lowell
Men
Privilege
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
James Russell Lowell
Time
Old
Security
Sense
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
James Russell Lowell
Change
People
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
James Russell Lowell
Truth
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
James Russell Lowell
Weakness
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
James Russell Lowell
Truth
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
James Russell Lowell
Heart
Sorrow
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
James Russell Lowell
Thoughts
Mind
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
James Russell Lowell
Experience
Faith
Conviction