James Russell Lowell Quotes
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Soft-heartedness, in times like these,Shows sof'ness in the upper story.
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The thing we long for, that we areFor one transcendent moment.
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Zekle crep' up quite unbeknownAn' peeked in thru' the winder,An there sot Huldy all alone,'ith no one nigh to hender.
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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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It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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The child is not mine as the first was,I cannot sing it to rest,I cannot lift it up fatherlyAnd bliss it upon my breast;Yet it lies in my little one's cradleAnd sits in my little one's chair,And the light of the heaven she's gone toTransfigures its golden hair.
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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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But John P.Robinson, heSez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
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Under the yaller pines I house,When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented,An' hear among their furry boughsThe baskin' west-wind purr contented.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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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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If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed?
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Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many.
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One day with life and heartIs more than time enough to find a world.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,But hern went pity-Zekle.
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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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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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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
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From the summit of power men no longer turn their eyes upward, but begin to look about them. Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.
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Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame;Ev'y thin' thet's done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.