Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
James Russell Lowell
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Nature
Children
Writing
Review
Something
Fits
Would
Reviews
Surely
Fit
Write
More quotes by James Russell Lowell
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
James Russell Lowell
There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
James Russell Lowell
I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
James Russell Lowell
What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
James Russell Lowell
The one thing finished in this hasty world.
James Russell Lowell
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
James Russell Lowell
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
James Russell Lowell
The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
James Russell Lowell
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
James Russell Lowell
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
James Russell Lowell
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
James Russell Lowell
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
James Russell Lowell
Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
James Russell Lowell
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
James Russell Lowell
The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
James Russell Lowell
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
James Russell Lowell
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell
My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
James Russell Lowell
