Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the… — 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
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
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She… — 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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