The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
¶ (Attributed)
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James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) American diplomat, essayist, poet
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
¶ (Attributed)
In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
¶ A Fable for Critics (1848)
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
¶ My Study Windows, (1899)
Chapter on Abraham Lincoln.
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
¶ Sonnet IV
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
¶ “For an Autograph,” st. 5 (1868)
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