Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
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
Woes
Faint
Woe
Worst
Suffering
Heart
More quotes by James Russell Lowell
Those who love are but one step from heaven.
James Russell Lowell
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
James Russell Lowell
The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
James Russell Lowell
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
Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
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
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
James Russell Lowell
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
James Russell Lowell
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
James Russell Lowell
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
James Russell Lowell
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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
To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
James Russell Lowell
Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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
Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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
'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
James Russell Lowell
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
James Russell Lowell
