Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The future works out great men's destinies The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
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
Footprints
Future
Destiny
Destinies
Soul
Forward
Wherein
Enough
Works
Footprint
Great
Present
Clay
Never
Forever
Souls
Men
Looking
Indeed
Age
Petrified
Common
Mere
More quotes by James Russell Lowell
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
James Russell Lowell
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
James Russell Lowell
Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
James Russell Lowell
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell Lowell
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell
And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.
James Russell Lowell
God'll send the bill to you.
James Russell Lowell
Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
James Russell Lowell
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
James Russell Lowell
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
James Russell Lowell
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
James Russell Lowell
Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
James Russell Lowell
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
James Russell Lowell
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
James Russell Lowell
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
James Russell Lowell
Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!
James Russell Lowell
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
James Russell Lowell
No price is set on the lavish summer June may be had by the poorest comer.
James Russell Lowell
Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
James Russell Lowell
