He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form… — 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
A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Better to me the poor mans crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with anothers need; Not what we give, but what we share, For… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression… — 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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