It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us… — 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