James Russell Lowell Quotes About Spring

Quotes about: Spring

• May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, May, Fraud

  'Under the Willows' (1869) l. 21

• 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

  Spring, Flower, Evil

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.34

• It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

  James Russell Lowell

  Song, Spring, Gun

  James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale (1902). “Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell”

• That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Spring, Wide

  James Russell Lowell (1841). “A year's life”, p.159

• May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Real, Wind

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.372

• Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Pride, Weakness

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1818, Delphi Classics

• O thou, whose days are yet all spring,
  Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving;
  Experience is a dumb, dead thing;
  The victory's in believing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Believe, Past

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.98

• The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today.
  
  The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Weed, Spring, Flower

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