A Quote by James Russell Lowell

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

James Russell Lowell

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Behind Leaves Monuments Moral Only Ruins Supremacy

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James Russell Lowell
American - Poet
February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

William Hazlitt

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.

Walter Benjamin

Naked a man comes into the world and naked he leaves it, after all is said and done he leaves nothing except the good deeds he leaves behind.

Rashi

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

Immanuel Kant

If we're united, I wouldn't care about a White school board getting me a little something. The hell with the school board; that's the White supremacy board and the White supremacy board wants you reading stupid books rooted in the idea of White supremacy. I don't want a thing to do with White supremacy.

Louis Farrakhan

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Franz Kafka

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Gayle Forman

When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.

Frederick Buechner

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Pericles

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.