James Russell Lowell Quotes
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
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From lower to the higher next,Not to the top, is Nature’s text;And embryo Good, to reach full stature,Absorbs the Evil in its nature.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin,But surely God endures forever.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Not only around our infancyDoth heaven with all its splendors lie;Daily, with souls that cringe and plot,We Sinais climb and know it not.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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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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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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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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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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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
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All thoughts that mould the age beginDeep down within the primitive soul.
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It is the tendency of all creeds, opinions, and political dogmas that have once defined themselves in institutions to become inoperative.
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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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The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
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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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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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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
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Our slender life runs rippling by, and glidesInto the silent hollow of the past;What is there that abidesTo make the next age better for the last?
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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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The little that we doIs but half-nobly true;With our laborious hivingWhat men call treasure, and the gods call dross,Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving,Only secure in every one's conniving,A long account of nothings paid with loss.
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The question of common sense is always 'What is it good for?'—a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.