Quotes by Lowell, James Russell

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a >>

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. >>

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

Quotations about Ideals and Idealism

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. >>

Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budge >>

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the >>

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

Lowell, James Russell