Quote

You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

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
Take
Guts

More quotes by James Russell Lowell

Image
He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
James Russell Lowell
Image
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
James Russell Lowell
Image
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
James Russell Lowell
Image
The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
James Russell Lowell
Image
Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.
James Russell Lowell
Image
It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
James Russell Lowell
Image
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
James Russell Lowell
Image
Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
James Russell Lowell
Image
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
James Russell Lowell
Image
Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
James Russell Lowell
Image
That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
James Russell Lowell
Image
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
James Russell Lowell
Image
The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
James Russell Lowell
Image
If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
James Russell Lowell
Image
I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
James Russell Lowell
Image
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
James Russell Lowell
Image
I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.
James Russell Lowell
Image
The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
James Russell Lowell
Image
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
James Russell Lowell
Image
Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
James Russell Lowell