One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends.… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In the storm, like a prophet o’ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap,— You can hear the quick heart of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Better to me the poor mans crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
