"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts." ― James Russell Lowell Topic(s): Great More From James Russell Lowell "As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new – and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend." "Children are God’s Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace." "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions." More In Great "College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil."― Ruby Wax "I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."― Plato "Calling a young artist ‘great’ these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade."― Jerry Saltz