Best James Russell Lowell Lines
- In the storm, like a prophet o’ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches....… Arms
- The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea,… Bare
- The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past... Change
- I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest. Believe
- It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no… Far
- Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. Crystals
- The victory's in believing. Belief
- And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Choice
- Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive? Forgive
- What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings. Call
- To genius life never grows commonplace. Commonplace
- Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds… All
- That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing. All
- Those who love are but one step from heaven. From
- Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough. Ah
- Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's… Ah
- Silence is sorrow's best food. Best
- Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and… Boast
- Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime. Ancestral
- Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on. Begotten
- Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave. End
- For only by unlearning Wisdom comes. Funny
- Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The… Ache
- This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the… Alone
- Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene,… Agonized
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