James Russell Lowell Quotes
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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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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man;Great souls are portions of eternity.
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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It may be glorious to writeThoughts that shall glad the two or threeHigh souls, like those far stars that come in sightOnce in a century.
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on;Whose prose is grand verse while his verse the Lord knowsIs some of it pr- No, 't is not even prose!
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Earth’s noblest thing, - a woman perfected.
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Of my meritOn thet pint you yourself may jedge;All is, I never drink no sperit,Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
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The very room, coz she was in,Seemed warm from floor to ceilin'
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I du believe with all my soulIn the gret Press's freedom,To pint the people to the goalAn' in the traces lead 'em.
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She thought no v'ice hed sech a swingEz hisn in the choir;My! when he made Ole Hunderd ringShe knowed the Lord was nigher.
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All kin' o' smily round the lips,An' teary round the lashes.
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
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Like streams that keep a summer mindSnow-hid in Jenooary.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;We are happy now because God wills it.
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Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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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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Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
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If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.
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Here was a type of the true elder race,And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,We bargain for the graves we lie in;At the Devil's booth are all things soldEach ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.