James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 16

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• Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Men, Poetry

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.40

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• A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Heart, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.81

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• The pine is the mother of legends.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mother, Legends

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.73

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• The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Doe, World

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

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• 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

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• Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Flower, Pride

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.82

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• It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Real, Atheism

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Letters”

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• God'll send the bill to you.

  James Russell Lowell

  God, Bills

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.184

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• A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ems, Belief, Politician

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• Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Long, Age, Pathways

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.74

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• There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Sea, Law

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.62

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• O thou, whose days are yet all spring,
  Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving;
  Experience is a dumb, dead thing;
  The victory's in believing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Believe, Past

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.98

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• No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

  James Russell Lowell

  Enemy, Desire, Needs

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

  James Russell Lowell

  Oats, Blood, Spurs

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• It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

  James Russell Lowell

  Army, Greek, March

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.239

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• Nature, they say, doth dote,
  And cannot make a man
  Save on some worn-out plan
  Repeating us by rote:
  For him her Old World moulds aside she threw
  And, choosing sweet clay from the breast
  Of the unexhausted West,
  With stuff untainted shaped a hero new.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sweet, Hero, Men

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

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• A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?

  James Russell Lowell

  Father, Men, Church

  James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers”

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• The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

  James Russell Lowell

  Education, School, Church

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.242

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• Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

  James Russell Lowell

  Enthusiasm, Abiding, Generations

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• Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith, Teaching, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.229

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• Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mistake, Men, Self

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: Six Essays”, p.331

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• There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

  James Russell Lowell

  Two, Speaks Out, Wish

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1871). “The North American Review”, p.196

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• 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

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• It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Doe, May

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.595, Delphi Classics

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• In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Men, Parliament

  JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1871). “THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS.”, p.26

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