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
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
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
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
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
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
Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully… — 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
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
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
What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake… — 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
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or… — 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
Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings… — 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
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
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
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
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings. — 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
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. — 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
Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't… — 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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