JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL QUOTES

American poet & diplomat (1819-1891)

James Russell Lowell quote

As life runs on, the road grows strange
With faces new, and near the end
The milestones into headstones change,
'Neath every one a friend.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Sixty-eighth Birthday

Tags: death


A wise man travels to discover himself.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Fireside Travels

Tags: travel


Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne--
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Present Crisis

Tags: God


At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Vision of Sir Launfal

Tags: devil


True freedom is to share
All the chains our brothers wear

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"Stanzas on Freedom"

Tags: freedom


Earth's noblest thing -- a woman perfected.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Irené

Tags: women


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

The Round Table

Tags: poetry


How little inventiveness there is in man,
Grave copier of copies.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Cathedral

Tags: invention


Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

L'Envoi

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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

Rousseau and the Sentimentalists

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Round Table

Tags: books


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

The Round Table


God, give us Peace! not such as lulls to sleep,
But sword on thigh and brow with purpose knit!

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Washers of the Shroud

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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

On Democracy


Nature fits all her children with something to do,
He who would write and can't write, can surely review.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

A Fable for Critics

Tags: criticism


One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Among My Books

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

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Columbus

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Though old the thought and oft expressed,
'Tis his at last who says it best.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

For an Autograph


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

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington"

Tags: Nature


Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Sonnet IV

Tags: nobility