--- title: "15 Ifs Quotes By James Russell Lowell" description: "15 Ifs quotes by James Russell Lowell. Plus more from James Russell Lowell and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc0/james-russell-lowell-561_boast_men-whose-boast-it-is-that-ye-come-of-fa_1708169.png" --- > [Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/men-whose-boast-it-is-that-ye-come-of-fathers-brave-and-free-if-there/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc0/james-russell-lowell-561_boast_men-whose-boast-it-is-that-ye-come-of-fa_1708169.png) > [If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/if-the-devil-take-a-less-hateful-shape-to-us-than-to-our-fathers-he/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b5/james-russell-lowell-561_busy_if-the-devil-take-a-less-hateful-shape-t_3189825.png) > [If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/if-god-made-poets-for-anything-it-was-to-keep-alive-the-traditions-of/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d9/james-russell-lowell-561_alive_if-god-made-poets-for-anything-it-was-to_3062071.jpg) > [Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/most-men-make-the-voyage-of-life-as-if-they-carried-sealed-orders/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b8/james-russell-lowell-561_ifs_most-men-make-the-voyage-of-life-as-if-t_1392881.png) > [If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/if-one-waits-for-the-right-time-to-come-before-writing-the-right-time/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a38/james-russell-lowell-561_ifs_if-one-waits-for-the-right-time-to-come_841535.png) > [A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/a-ginooine-statesman-should-be-on-his-guard-if-he-must-hev-beliefs/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f77/james-russell-lowell-561_belief_a-ginooine-statesman-should-be-on-his-gu_2491595.png) > [To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/to-be-young-is-surely-the-best-if-the-most-precarious-gift-of-life/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/804/james-russell-lowell-561_be-young_to-be-young-is-surely-the-best-if-the-mo_622319.png) > [God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/god-is-not-dumb-that-he-should-speak-no-more-if-thou-hast-wanderings/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2f/james-russell-lowell-561_dumb_god-is-not-dumb-that-he-should-speak-no_2228306.png) > [How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/how-i-do-love-the-earth-i-feel-it-thrill-under-my-feet-i-feel-somehow/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4b/james-russell-lowell-561_adventure_how-i-do-love-the-earth-i-feel-it-thrill_2118073.png) > [God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/god-s-livery-is-a-very-plain-one-but-its-wearers-have-good-reason-to/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/799/james-russell-lowell-561_cheaper_god-s-livery-is-a-very-plain-one-but-its_2162395.png) > [Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/good-heavens-of-what-un-costly-material-is-our-earthly-happiness/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/712/james-russell-lowell-561_dividends_good-heavens-of-what-un-costly-material_1643519.jpg) > [In the storm, like a prophet o’ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/in-the-storm-like-a-prophet-o-ermaddened-thou-singest-and-tossest-thy/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f0/james-russell-lowell-561_arms_in-the-storm-like-a-prophet-o-ermaddened_3140537.png) > [Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/again-now-now-again-plashes-the-rain-in-heavy-gouts-the-crinkled/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80c/james-russell-lowell-561_battle_again-now-now-again-plashes-the-rain-in_2316936.jpg) > [Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap,— You can hear the quick heart of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/now-on-the-hills-i-hear-the-thunder-mutter-nearer-and-nearer-rolls/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc0/james-russell-lowell-561_beats_now-on-the-hills-i-hear-the-thunder-mutt_1657810.jpg) > [Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/scepticism-commonly-takes-up-the-room-left-by-defect-of-imagination/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e33/james-russell-lowell-561_believe_scepticism-commonly-takes-up-the-room-le_2154890.png) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by James Russell Lowell > [We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/we-kind-o-thought-christ-went-agin-war-an-pillage/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) > [He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/he-gives-only-the-worthless-gold-who-gives-from-a-sense-of-duty/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) > [As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/as-life-runs-on-the-road-grows-strange-with-faces-new-and-near-the/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) > [Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/where-one-person-shapes-their-life-by-precept-and-example-there-are-a/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) > [Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/granting-our-wish-is-one-of-fate-s-saddest-jokes/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/most-religion-mongers-have-bated-their-paradises-with-a-bit-of/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) > [The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/the-thing-we-long-for-that-we-are-for-one-transcendent-moment/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) > [O reputation! dearer far than life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/o-reputation-dearer-far-than-life/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) > [Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/keats-longed-for-fame-but-longed-above-all-to-deserve-it/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/it-is-beginning-to-be-doubtful-whether-parliament-and-congress-sit-in/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) > [ \[B\]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/b-ut-in-literature-it-should-be-remembered-a-thing-always-becomes-his/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) > [It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/it-may-be-glorious-to-write-thoughts-that-shall-glad-the-two-or-three/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) > [It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/it-is-the-vain-endeavor-to-make-ourselves-what-we-are-not-that-has/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) > [Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/take-winter-as-you-find-him-and-he-turns-out-to-be-a-thoroughly/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) > [The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/the-intellect-has-only-one-failing-which-to-be-sure-is-a-very/) [James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/james-russell-lowell/#itemlist", "name": "15 Ifs Quotes By James Russell Lowell", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James Russell Lowell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/men-whose-boast-it-is-that-ye-come-of-fathers-brave-and-free-if-there/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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