Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on th... -James Russell Lowell

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

James Russell Lowell , Poet
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James Russell Lowell Quotes to Explore

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how....
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....
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace....
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....
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship....
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character....
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache....
Freedom is the only law which genius knows....
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action....
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts....

Truth Quotes to Explore

Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can't del...
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure....
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either....
A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God...
Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth....
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters....
When you are living your truth, you will meet people who love you for that truth....
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world....
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves o...
If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can ...