James Russell Lowell Quotes
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To say why gals acts so or so,Or don't, 'ould be persumin';Mebby to mean yes an' say noComes nateral to women.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
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'T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur.
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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We are persuaded that the election of Mr. Lincoln will do more than anything else to appease the excitement of the country. He has proved both his ability and his integrity; he has had experience enough in public affairs to make him a statesman, and not enough to make him a politician.
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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God makes sech nights, all white an' still,Fur'z you can look or listen,Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill,All silence an' all glisten.
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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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The capacity of indignation makes an essential part of the outfit of every honest man.
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Ez to my princerples, I gloryIn hevin' nothin' o' the sort.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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No man is born into the world whose workIs not born with him. There is always work,And tools to work withal, for those who will;And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
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Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood.
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Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand,Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land?Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis Truth alone is strong,And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throngTroops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.
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His words were simple words enough,And yet he used them so,That what in other mouths was roughIn his seemed musical and low.
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He stood a spell on one foot fustThen stood a spell on t' other,An' on which one he felt the wustHe could n't ha' told ye nuther.
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.
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Be noble! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.