A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. — 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
Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far… — 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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