Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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
Lights
Grows
Less
Another
Light
Nobleness
Lamp
Lamps
More quotes by James Russell Lowell
Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
James Russell Lowell
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.
James Russell Lowell
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
James Russell Lowell
Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
James Russell Lowell
Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
James Russell Lowell
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
James Russell Lowell
You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
James Russell Lowell
The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
James Russell Lowell
Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
James Russell Lowell
Aspiration sees only one side of every question possession many.
James Russell Lowell
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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 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
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
James Russell Lowell
Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
James Russell Lowell
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
James Russell Lowell
But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.
James Russell Lowell
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
James Russell Lowell
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
James Russell Lowell
I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
James Russell Lowell
