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
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
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — 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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