Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field. — 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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