James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 10

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• Time makes ancient good uncouth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Onward And Upward, Ancient, Uncouth

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• Freedom needs all her poets; it is they
  Who give her aspirations wings,
  And to the wiser law of music sway
  Her wild imaginings.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Law, Wings

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.107

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• Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

  James Russell Lowell

  Loyalty, Bravery, May

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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• Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Sleep, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1853). “Poems”, p.220

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• It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Rights, Revolution

  "Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes".

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• 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

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• The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thieves, Rust, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary and political addresses”

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• Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

  James Russell Lowell

  Long, Spirit, Century

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.384

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• Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Love Life, Bless

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.105

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• Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Thinking, Tree

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.401

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• A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

  James Russell Lowell

  Common Sense, Profound, Genius

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.132

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• For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.

  James Russell Lowell

  Yesterday, Hands, Humanity

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fame, Deserve

  JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1871). “THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS.”, p.14

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• There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

  James Russell Lowell

  Tradition, Eternal Life, Originals

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.146

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• 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

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• 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

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• What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

  James Russell Lowell

  Time, Book, Reading

  "Literary Essays, vol. I". Book by James Russell Lowell, 1864-1890.

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• Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Flower, Simplicity

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Letters of James Russell Lowell”

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• Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.

  James Russell Lowell

  Strong, Blue, Sky

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.138

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• It is right precious to behold
  The first long surf of climbing light
  Flood all the thirsty east with gold.

  James Russell Lowell

  Light, Climbing, Long

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.78

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• The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Real, Men, Experience

  James Russell Lowell (1888). “The English Poets: Lessing, Rousseau: Essays”

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• Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Heart, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.403

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• God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

  James Russell Lowell

  Time, Men, Needs

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1776, Delphi Classics

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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sacrifice, Reality, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.377

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