James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 9

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• Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.

  James Russell Lowell

  Analysis, Tests, Deities

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• 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

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• The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

  James Russell Lowell

  Woods, Longing, Silent

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• Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Men, Citizens

  'On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves' (1854)

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• To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

  James Russell Lowell

  Youth, Young, Gifts Of Life

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.277

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• It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

  James Russell Lowell

  Book, Practice, Class

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1849). “The North American Review”, p.212

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• Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Simple, Being Thankful

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1849). “The North American Review”, p.207

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• Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.178

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• The green grass floweth like a stream
  Into the oceans's blue.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Blue, Green

  James Russell Lowell, “The Sirens”

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• Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Circles, Years, Earth

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.181

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• In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Speech

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.365

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• It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

  James Russell Lowell

  Legs, Rooms, Printing

  James Russell Lowell (1897). “Literary and political addresses”

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• The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

  James Russell Lowell

  Night, White, Snow

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.631, Delphi Classics

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• I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Peace, Rivers

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

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• No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Ambition, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.3

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• Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

  James Russell Lowell

  Strength, Wisdom, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.147

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• There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Victory, Sun

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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• Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Originality, Human Nature

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.63

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• Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.

  James Russell Lowell

  Soil, Generations, Sap

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• What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

  James Russell Lowell

  Kings, Men, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.103

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• This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sound, Opinion, Honest

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1780, Delphi Classics

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• The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Simple, Tears

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.16

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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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