For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft,… — 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
Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands. — 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
Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies -… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and… — 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
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
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
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there… — 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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