James Russell Lowell Quotes
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?
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.
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.
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
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.
Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
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.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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.
There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
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.
In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.
Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.
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.
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.
Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.
Let us be of good cheer remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.