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Stern men with empires in their brains.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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More quotes by James Russell Lowell
And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.
James Russell Lowell
Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
James Russell Lowell
You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
James Russell Lowell
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
Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
James Russell Lowell
Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
James Russell Lowell
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
James Russell Lowell
Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
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
All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
James Russell Lowell
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
James Russell Lowell
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
James Russell Lowell
Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.
James Russell Lowell
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
James Russell Lowell
Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
James Russell Lowell
Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
James Russell Lowell
