James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 17

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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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• A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.

  James Russell Lowell

  Principles, Purpose, Might

  James Russell Lowell (1859). “The Biglow papers”, p.68

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• In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

  James Russell Lowell

  Loyalty, Ideas, Sublime

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

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• Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ruins, Morality, Supremacy

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.3

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• Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Men, Forever

  "The poetical works of John Keats. With a memoir, by James Russell Lowell" by John Keats, James Russell Lowell, New York: J. Miller, 1871.

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• There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

  James Russell Lowell

  Business, Advice, Risk

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1220, Delphi Classics

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• Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

  James Russell Lowell

  Plagiarism, Garments, Borrowed

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.69

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• He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

  James Russell Lowell

  Giving, Gold, Duty

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

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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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• The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Real, Lying, Blessed

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1199, Delphi Classics

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• Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Mean, Eye

  James Russell Lowell (1887). “Democracy and other Addresses”

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• I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

  James Russell Lowell

  Believe, Belief, Interest

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.461, Delphi Classics

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• Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mean, Liberty, May

  James Russell Lowell (1900). “The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...”

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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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• The gift without the giver is rare.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thank You, Generosity, Giving

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• Sorrow is the great idealizer.

  James Russell Lowell

  Grief, Sorrow, Great Idea

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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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• 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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• 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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• To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ends, Lows

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.123

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• 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

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