Best James Russell Lowell Quotes
- Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly. Addiction
- There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. All
- In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition… All
- Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to… Abject
- There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul… Been
- The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me. All
- When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp... Beggarly
- But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend.… All
- Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. Angel
- Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best. Best
- All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that… All
- Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils,… All
- A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. Counting
- 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath… All
- Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity. Eternity
- Sorrow is the great idealizer. Great
- I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. Confess
- The gift without the giver is rare. Generosity
- Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was… Beset
- Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he… All
- Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great… Comfort
- Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. Dead
- To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has… Been
- And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl. Deep
- As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness. Grows
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