O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Every person born into this world their work is born with them. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does. — 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
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the… — 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
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to… — 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
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
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
The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom… — 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
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
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the… — 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
