James Russell Lowell Quotes
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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When I was a beggarly boy,And lived in a cellar damp,I had not a friend nor a toy,But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.
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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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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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But John P.Robinson, heSez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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For though he builds glorious temples, 'tis oddHe leaves never a doorway to get in a god.
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God, give us Peace! not such as lulls to sleep,But sword on thigh and brow with purpose knit!And let our Ship of State to harbor sweep,Her ports all up, her battle lanterns lit,And her leashed thunders gathering for their leap.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,But hern went pity-Zekle.
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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.
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A marciful Providunce fashioned us hollerO' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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Ye come and go incessant; we remainSafe in the hallowed quiets of the past;Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot,Of faith so nobly realized as this.
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, - emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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One day with life and heartIs more than time enough to find a world.
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There is no price set on the lavish summer,And June may be had by the poorest comer.
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Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
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They came three thousand miles, and died,To keep the Past upon its throne;Unheard, beyond the ocean tide,Their English mother made her moan.
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The snow had begun in the gloaming,And busily all the nightHad been heaping field and highwayWith a silence deep and white.
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Where Church and State are habitually associated it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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Along A River-Side, I Know Not Where,I walked one night in mystery of dream;A chill creeps curdling yet beneath my hair,To think what chanced me by the pallid gleamOf a moon-wraith that waned through haunted air.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.