James Russell Lowell Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, 4th Of July, Cinco De Mayo

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.”, p.25, tredition

• It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Real, Atheism

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Letters”

• Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Soul, Earth

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.583, Delphi Classics

• Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Country, Peace

• No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Ambition, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.3

• That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Sentiments, Pernicious

  James Russell Lowell (1898). “Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole”, p.521, Library of Alexandria

• Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Simple, Being Thankful

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1849). “The North American Review”, p.207

• The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather; to the wise man it is the desired port where he moors his bark gladly, as in some quiet haven of the Fortunate Isles; it is the golden west into which his sun sinks, and, sinking, casts back a glory upon the leaden cloud-tack which had darkly besieged his day.

  James Russell Lowell

  Death, Wise, Country

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.111

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