Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
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
Fields
Ways
Bravely
Given
Sealed
Truth
Closet
May
Closets
Many
Bravery
Way
Loyalty
Life
Field
More quotes by James Russell Lowell
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
James Russell Lowell
They have rights who dare maintain them.
James Russell Lowell
The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
James Russell Lowell
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
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
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
James Russell Lowell
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
James Russell Lowell
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
James Russell Lowell
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed Man is more than Constitutions better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
James Russell Lowell
It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
James Russell Lowell
O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
James Russell Lowell
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
James Russell Lowell
'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
James Russell Lowell
A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
James Russell Lowell
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, I find thee worthy do this deed for me?
James Russell Lowell
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
James Russell Lowell
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
James Russell Lowell
