James Russell Lowell Quotes
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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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Fate loves the fearless.
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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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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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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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Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood.
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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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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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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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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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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All thoughts that mould the age beginDeep down within the primitive soul.
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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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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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Though old the thought and oft expressed,'Tis his at last who says it best.
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
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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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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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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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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.
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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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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.