James Russell Lowell Quotes

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... view

By: James Russell Lowell

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Fate loves the fearless... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Every person born into this world their work is born with them... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Freedom is the only law which genius knows... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.. view

By: James Russell Lowell

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it... view

By: James Russell Lowell

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days... view

By: James Russell Lowell

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run... view

By: James Russell Lowell

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action... view

By: James Russell Lowell

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes... view

By: James Russell Lowell

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor... view

By: James Russell Lowell

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested... view

By: 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... view

By: James Russell Lowell

On one issue at least, men and women agree.. view

By: James Russell Lowell

Not failure, but low aim, is crime... view

By: James Russell Lowell

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Light is the symbol of truth... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Folks never understand the folks they hate... view

By: James Russell Lowell

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us... view

By: James Russell Lowell

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning... view

By: James Russell Lowell

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return... view

By: James Russell Lowell

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking... view

By: James Russell Lowell

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak... view

By: James Russell Lowell

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon... view

By: James Russell Lowell

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife... view

By: James Russell Lowell

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft... view

By: James Russell Lowell