James Russell Lowell Quotes
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The Holy Supper is kept, indeed,In whatso we share with another's need,-Not that which we give, but what we share,-For the gift without the giver is bare;Who bestows himself with his alms feeds three,-Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
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Fate loves the fearless.
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To win the secret of a weed’s plain heart.
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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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The wisest man could ask no more of FateThan to be simple, modest, manly, true,Safe from the Many - honored by the Few;To count as naught in World or Church or State;But inwardly in secret to be great.
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In the scales of the destinies brawn will never weigh so much as brain. Our healing is not in the storm or in the whirlwind, it is not in monarchies, or aristocracies, or democracies, but will be revealed by the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart, prompting us to a wider and wiser humanity.
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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All thoughts that mould the age beginDeep down within the primitive soul.
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Though old the thought and oft expressed,'Tis his at last who says it best.
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin,But surely God endures forever.
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The traitor to humanity is the traitor most accursed;Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod,Than to be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God!
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They are slaves who fear to speakFor the fallen and the weak;They are slaves who will not chooseHatred, scoffing, and abuse,Rather than in silence shrinkFrom the truth they needs must think;They are slaves who dare not beIn the right with two or three.
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You've gut to git up airlyEf you want to take in God.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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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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I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breastSucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest.
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Wut's words to them whose faith an' truthOn war's red techstone rang true metal;Who ventered life an' love an' youthFor the gret prize o' death in battle?
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, - emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.