James Russell Lowell Quotes
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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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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
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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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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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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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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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'T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur.
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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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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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It ain't by princerples nor menMy preudunt course is steadied-I scent wich pays the best, an' thenGo into it baldheaded.
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Ez to my princerples, I gloryIn hevin' nothin' o' the sort.
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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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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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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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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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Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live.
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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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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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If there are men who regret the Good Old Times, without too clear a notion of what they were, they should at least be thankful that we are rid of that misguided energy of faith which justifies conscience in making men unrelentingly cruel.
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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.