The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth and falsehood, for the good or… — 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
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of… — 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
The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of… — 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
One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. — 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
“Long habit had accustomed the American people to the notion of a party in power, and of a President as its creature… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, thy bleeding feet we track Toiling up new Calv'ries ever with the cross that turns… — 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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