James Russell Lowell Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.
Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
Freedom needs all her poets; it is they
Who give her aspirations wings,
And to the wiser law of music sway
Her wild imaginings.
Who give her aspirations wings,
And to the wiser law of music sway
Her wild imaginings.
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.
Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous.
Of courage and security from every sod of it would have evaporated beyond recall. We should be irrevocably cut
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
But better far it is to speak
One simple word, which now and then
Shall waken their free nature in the weak
And friendless sons of men.
One simple word, which now and then
Shall waken their free nature in the weak
And friendless sons of men.
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
God is not dumb, that he should speak no more;
If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness
And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness
And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
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 ...
All that hath been majestical
In life or death, since time began,
Is native in the simple heart of all,
The angel heat of man.
In life or death, since time began,
Is native in the simple heart of all,
The angel heat of man.
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
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.