Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do… — 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
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
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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