 | The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - 654 pages
...does deception lead more surely to distrust of men, than self-deception to suspicion of principles. The only faith that wears well and holds its color...conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. Enthusiasm is good material for the orator, but the statesman needs something more durable to work... | |
 | 1864 - 656 pages
...does deception lead more surely to distrust of men, than self-deception to suspicion of principles. The only faith that wears well and holds its color...conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. Enthusiasm is good material for the orator, but the statesman needs something more durable to work... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Biography & Autobiography - 1871 - 450 pages
...does deception lead more surely to distrust of men, than selfdeception to suspicion of principles. The only faith that wears well and holds its color...conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. Enthusiasm is good material for the orator, but the statesman needs something more durable to work... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Birds - 1876 - 454 pages
...does deception lead more surely to distrust of men, than selfdeception to suspicion of principles. The only faith that wears well and holds its color...conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. Enthusiasm is good material for the orator, but the statesman needs something more durable to work... | |
 | Gordon Augustus Southworth, Farley Brewer Goddard - English language - 1887 - 408 pages
...truth stabs Falsehood to the heart. 12. What men call luck is the prerogative of valiant souls. 13. The only faith that wears well and holds its color...all weathers is that which is woven of conviction. 14. What a man knows should find expression in what he does. D. ERRORS IX THE USE OF PRONOUNS. * 1.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Authors - 1887 - 408 pages
...self-deception to suspicion of principles. The only faith that wears well and holds its colour in all weather is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. Enthusiasm is good material for the orator, but the statesman needs something more durable to work... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. 1422 Lowell : Among My Books. Shakespeare Once More. The only faith that wears well and holds its color...conviction, and set with the sharp mordant of experience. 1423 Lowell : My Study Windows. Abraham Lincoln. 1864. Experience is a safe light to walk by. and he... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - United States - 1890 - 350 pages
...does deception lead more surely to distrust of men than self-deception to suspicion of principles. The only faith that wears well and holds its color...conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. Enthusiasm is good material for the orator, but the statesman needs something more durable to work... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - United States - 1890 - 342 pages
...does deception lead more surely to distrust of men than self-deception to suspicion of principles. The only faith that wears well and holds its color...conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. Enthusiasm is good material for the orator, but the statesman needs something more durable to work... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 350 pages
...does deception lead more surely to distrust of men than self-deception to suspicion of principles. The only faith that wears well and holds its color...conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. Enthusiasm is good material for the orator, but the statesman needs something more durable to work... | |
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. 
