With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set… — 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
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
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions… — 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
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
