To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes. — 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
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap,— You can hear the quick heart of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In the storm, like a prophet o’ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the… — 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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