One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin. — 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
As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime. — 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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