Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious… — 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
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
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
That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak… — 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
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
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 traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. — 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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