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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

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

James Russell Lowell

Argument

Wind

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

James Russell Lowell

Truth

Wrong

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

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

James Russell Lowell

Intelligence

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

James Russell Lowell

Men

Belief

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

James Russell Lowell

Grief

Joy

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

James Russell Lowell

Youth

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

James Russell Lowell

Oak

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

James Russell Lowell

Ocean

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

James Russell Lowell

Incredulity

Nothing