It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.


Poems (ed. 1894)

James Russell Lowell Quotes

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while...

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while...

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while...

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while...