James Russell Lowell Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.32

• Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Foundation, Sap

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1871). “The North American Review”, p.189

• They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fear, Character, Speak

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.53

• The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

• Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  "The Works of James Russell Lowell".

• One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Break Through, Style

  James Russell Lowell (2015). “Abraham Lincoln”, p.22, Sheba Blake Publishing

• 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

  Wise, Heart, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.81

• All that hath been majestical
  In life or death, since time began,
  Is native in the simple heart of all,
  The angel heat of man.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Character, Angel

• Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

  James Russell Lowell

  Happiness, Success, Character

  JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1871). “THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS.”, p.14

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