James Russell Lowell Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

  James Russell Lowell

  Patience, Passion, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics

• The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Brain, Easy

• Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Honesty, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.116

• The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Broken Heart, Sorrow

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.284, Delphi Classics

• Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Past, History

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.402

• Not as all other women are
  Is she that to my soul is dear;
  Her glorious fancies come from far,
  Beneath the silver evening star,
  And yet her heart is ever near.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Stars, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.6

• His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Pity

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.168

• To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

  James Russell Lowell

  Weed, Heart, Winning

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.113

• Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Happiness, Heart, Gods Will

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.33, tredition

• One day with life and heart
  Is more than time enough to find a world.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Time, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.57

• True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

  James Russell Lowell

  Brother, Heart, Equality

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.125

• Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Anxiety, Tense

• 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 have not sooner or later responded.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Soul, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.357

• Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap, - You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat.... Look! look! that livid flash! And instantly follows the rattling thunder, As if some cloud-crag, split asunder, Fell, splintering with a ruinous crash, On the Earth, which crouches in silence under; And now a solid gray wall of rain Shuts off the landscape, mile by mile.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wall, Rain, Heart

• Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.

  James Russell Lowell

  War, Heart, Sometimes

• Better to me the poor mans crust,
  Better the blessing of the poor,
  Though I turn me empty from his door;
  That is no true alms which the hand can hold;
  He gives nothing but worthless gold
  Who gives from a sense of duty;
  But he who gives a slender mite,
  And gives to that which is out of sight,
  That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty
  Which runs through all and doth all unite, -
  The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms,
  The heart outstretches its eager palms,
  For a god goes with it and makes it store
  To the soul that was starving in darkness before.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Heart, Blessing

  James Russell Lowell, “The Vision Of Sir Launfal”

• 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 loud din.

  James Russell Lowell

  Loneliness, Heart, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.16

• It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Forget Everything, Childhood

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.141

• 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 heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Eye, Clouds

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.118

• God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Errors, Balance

• He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Crush, Christian, Spiritual

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

• All that hath been majestical
  In life or death, since time began,
  Is native in the simple heart of all,
  The angel heat of man.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Character, Angel

• O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all shall say My Brother here, And hear My Son in heaven!

  James Russell Lowell

  Sweet, Brother, Easter

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.385

• The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Musical, Strings

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.48

• Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Heart, Blood

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.117

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