Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet.… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote: For him her… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good… — 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
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
O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of… — 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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