Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of… — 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
The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find… — 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. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for… — 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
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review. — 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
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
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is… — 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
AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not… — 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
“Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth, Share in the tree top's joyance, and conceive Of sunshine and wide air… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis… — 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
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
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
