Best James Russell Lowell Wisdom
- Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than… Beyond
- So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for… All
- May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind. Almanac
- Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow. All
- The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. Called
- In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. Contrive
- Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge. All
- One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. All
- The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out. Almost Seem
- The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and… Accursed
- Tyranny is always weakness Always Weakness
- Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. Epigram
- Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet. All
- Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years? Even Yet
- An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she… Angel
- Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole… Ancestry
- The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could… Bank
- Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night. Each
- Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. Genius
- They have rights who dare maintain them. Dare
- One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. Educational
- Light is the symbol of truth. Inspirational
- Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or… Day
- All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. Action
- Fate loves the fearless. Courage
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