Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote: For him her… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make… — 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
The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake… — 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
