Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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
Mountain
Birthright
Holy
Pilgrim
Blood
Mud
High
Ancestor
Talk
Stream
Ends
Melancholy
Thinking
Streams
Thinks
Ancestry
More quotes by James Russell Lowell
The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
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
Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
James Russell Lowell
No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
James Russell Lowell
The one thing finished in this hasty world.
James Russell Lowell
Aspiration sees only one side of every question possession many.
James Russell Lowell
Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
James Russell Lowell
The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew, This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.
James Russell Lowell
Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
James Russell Lowell
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
James Russell Lowell
'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
James Russell Lowell
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
James Russell Lowell
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
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
James Russell Lowell
The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
James Russell Lowell
Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
James Russell Lowell
History is clarified experience.
James Russell Lowell
Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
James Russell Lowell
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
James Russell Lowell
The child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.
James Russell Lowell
