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A wise man travels to discover himself.
— James Russell Lowell
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
— James Russell Lowell
All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
— James Russell Lowell
The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
— James Russell Lowell
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.
— James Russell Lowell
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.
— James Russell Lowell
They have rights who dare maintain them.
— James Russell Lowell
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
— James Russell Lowell
The surest plan to make a ManIs, think him so. — James Russell Lowell
Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
— James Russell Lowell
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
— James Russell Lowell
All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it
— James Russell Lowell
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
— James Russell Lowell
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
— James Russell Lowell
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
— James Russell Lowell
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
— James Russell Lowell
Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.
— James Russell Lowell
Freedom needs all her poets; it is theyWho give her aspirations wings,
And to the wiser law of music sway
Her wild imaginings. — James Russell Lowell
Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
— James Russell Lowell
It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous.
— James Russell Lowell
Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
— James Russell Lowell
He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
— James Russell Lowell
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
— James Russell Lowell
Silence is sorrow's best food.
— James Russell Lowell
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
— James Russell Lowell
O reputation! dearer far than life.
— James Russell Lowell
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
— James Russell Lowell
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
— James Russell Lowell
Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
— James Russell Lowell
Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze ...
— James Russell Lowell
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.
— James Russell Lowell
Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?
— James Russell Lowell
Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
— James Russell Lowell
Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
— James Russell Lowell
That best academy, a mother's knee.
— James Russell Lowell
To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
— James Russell Lowell
The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.
— James Russell Lowell
Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
— James Russell Lowell
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
— James Russell Lowell
No price is set on the lavish summer;June may be had by the poorest comer. — James Russell Lowell
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
— James Russell Lowell
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
— James Russell Lowell
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
— James Russell Lowell
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
— James Russell Lowell
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.
— James Russell Lowell
Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
— James Russell Lowell
That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."
— James Russell Lowell
Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
— James Russell Lowell
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. — James Russell Lowell
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
— James Russell Lowell
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
— James Russell Lowell
Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
— James Russell Lowell
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
— James Russell Lowell
On Lincoln: A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
— James Russell Lowell
O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
— James Russell Lowell
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.
— James Russell Lowell
Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.
— James Russell Lowell
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
— James Russell Lowell
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
— James Russell Lowell
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
— James Russell Lowell
A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
— James Russell Lowell
Humbleness is always grace; always dignity
— James Russell Lowell
The green grass floweth like a streamInto the oceans's blue. — James Russell Lowell
May is a pious fraud of the almanac.
— James Russell Lowell
Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
— James Russell Lowell
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.
— James Russell Lowell
The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
— James Russell Lowell
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.
— James Russell Lowell
Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
— James Russell Lowell
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 ...
— James Russell Lowell
History is clarified experience.
— James Russell Lowell
That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
— James Russell Lowell
All that hath been majesticalIn life or death, since time began,
Is native in the simple heart of all,
The angel heat of man. — James Russell Lowell
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
— James Russell Lowell
God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.
— James Russell Lowell
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.
— James Russell Lowell
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
— James Russell Lowell
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
— James Russell Lowell
An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.
— James Russell Lowell
Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
— James Russell Lowell
There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
— James Russell Lowell
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
— James Russell Lowell
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
— James Russell Lowell
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
— James Russell Lowell
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
— James Russell Lowell
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
— James Russell Lowell
To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.
— James Russell Lowell
Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
— James Russell Lowell
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
— James Russell Lowell
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
— James Russell Lowell
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
— James Russell Lowell
Many make the household but only one the home.
— James Russell Lowell
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.
— James Russell Lowell
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
— James Russell Lowell
The gift without the giver is rare.
— James Russell Lowell
Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.
— James Russell Lowell
We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
— James Russell Lowell
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.
— James Russell Lowell
Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
— James Russell Lowell
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
— James Russell Lowell