James Russell Lowell Quotes

Truth forever on the scaffold wrong forever on the throne.
James Russell Lowell
The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
James Russell Lowell
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him there is always work And tools to work withal for those who will And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
James Russell Lowell
Earth's noblest thing a Woman perfected.
James Russell Lowell
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
James Russell Lowell
The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
James Russell Lowell
Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.
James Russell Lowell
Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne.
James Russell Lowell
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when she'll say to thee "I find thee worthy do this deed for me?"
James Russell Lowell
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
James Russell Lowell
Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you which is a great comfort in the long run.
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
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
James Russell Lowell
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
James Russell Lowell
Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
James Russell Lowell
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
James Russell Lowell
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell Lowell
Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
James Russell Lowell
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
James Russell Lowell
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
James Russell Lowell
I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
James Russell Lowell
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
James Russell Lowell
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
James Russell Lowell
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russell Lowell
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.
James Russell Lowell
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell Lowell
One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.
James Russell Lowell
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
James Russell Lowell
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
James Russell Lowell
I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
James Russell Lowell
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
James Russell Lowell
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
James Russell Lowell
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russell Lowell
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.
James Russell Lowell
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell Lowell
One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.
James Russell Lowell
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
James Russell Lowell
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then if ever come perfect days Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune And over it softly her warm ear lays.
James Russell Lowell
Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
James Russell Lowell
Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.
James Russell Lowell
Let us be of good cheer remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
James Russell Lowell
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
James Russell Lowell
Darkness is strong and so is Sin But surely God endures forever!
James Russell Lowell
Whom the heart of man shuts out Sometimes the heart of God takes in.
James Russell Lowell
God'll send the bill to you.
James Russell Lowell
Not failure but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
James Russell Lowell
Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell Lowell
Good heavens of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
James Russell Lowell
The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.
James Russell Lowell
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.
James Russell Lowell
Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
James Russell Lowell
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
James Russell Lowell
Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.
James Russell Lowell
In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell
Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.
James Russell Lowell
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russell Lowell