James Russell Lowell Quotes
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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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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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This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
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New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth;They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of TruthLo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be,Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea,Nor attempt the Future’s portal with the Past’s blood-rusted key.
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Fate loves the fearless.
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Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live.
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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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Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life, and they solved it with singular discretion. They put as many obstacles as they could contrive, not in the way of the people's will, but of their whim.
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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul,An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust,Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just;Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside,Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified,And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
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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.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
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To win the secret of a weed’s plain heart.
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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You've gut to git up airlyEf you want to take in God.