Quote

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

James Russell Lowell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Weed
Plain
Winning
Secret
Heart

More quotes by James Russell Lowell

Image
There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
James Russell Lowell
Image
Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
James Russell Lowell
Image
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
James Russell Lowell
Image
All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
James Russell Lowell
Image
History is clarified experience.
James Russell Lowell
Image
The pine is the mother of legends.
James Russell Lowell
Image
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
James Russell Lowell
Image
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
Image
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell
Image
You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
James Russell Lowell
Image
The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
James Russell Lowell
Image
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
James Russell Lowell
Image
It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
James Russell Lowell
Image
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
Image
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
James Russell Lowell
Image
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
Image
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
James Russell Lowell
Image
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
Image
He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
James Russell Lowell
Image
Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
James Russell Lowell