Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. — 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
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were… — 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. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his… — 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
There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in… — 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 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
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and… — 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
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
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
The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad… — 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
To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory… — 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
The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather;… — 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
A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the… — 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
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
A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past. — 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
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
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear… — 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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