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Grief, Joy

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

- James Russell Lowell

Other quotes by James Russell Lowell


It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

- James Russell Lowell

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

- James Russell Lowell

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

- James Russell Lowell

Light is the symbol of truth.

- James Russell Lowell

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

- James Russell Lowell

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

- James Russell Lowell

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- Egon Schiele

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

- Khalil Gibran

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

- Paul Tsongas

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

- John Sterling

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

- Mark Twain

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

- Vaclav Havel