James Russell Lowell Quotes
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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Fate loves the fearless.
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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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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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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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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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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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All thoughts that mould the age beginDeep down within the primitive soul.
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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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Though old the thought and oft expressed,'Tis his at last who says it best.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
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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.
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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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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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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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A reading-machine, always wound up and going,He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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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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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
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In vain we call old notions fudge,And bend our conscience to our dealing;The Ten Commandments will not budge,And stealing will continue stealing.
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Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,First pledge of blithesome May,Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.