James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 2

Fate loves the fearless.
James Russell Lowell
Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is a temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell
Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
James Russell Lowell
The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come.
James Russell Lowell
O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.
James Russell Lowell
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!
James Russell Lowell
There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
James Russell Lowell
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.
James Russell Lowell
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
James Russell Lowell
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
James Russell Lowell
As life runs on, the road grows strangetWith faces new, and near the endtThe milestones into headstones change,t’Neath every one a friend.
James Russell Lowell
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell
The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
James Russell Lowell
A wise man travels to discover himself.
James Russell Lowell
In creating the only hard thing's to begin
James Russell Lowell
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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
Fate loves the fearless.
James Russell Lowell