James Russell Lowell Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  1867 'Rousseau and the Sentimentalists', in the North American Review, Jul.

• Folks never understand the folks they hate.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Happiness, Success

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.523, Delphi Classics

• Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Beautiful, Creativity

• Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  James Russell Lowell (1892). “Literary and political addresses”

• Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Destiny, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.234

• True love is but a humble, low born thing,
  And hath its food served up in earthenware;
  It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand,
  Through the every-dayness of this workday world.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Humble, Love Is

  James Russell Lowell, “Love”

• Not as all other women are
  Is she that to my soul is dear;
  Her glorious fancies come from far,
  Beneath the silver evening star,
  And yet her heart is ever near.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Stars, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.6

• 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

  Life, Time, Fate

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The poetical works”

• Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Truth, War

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.600, Delphi Classics

• Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Fate, Conniving

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.430

• One day with life and heart
  Is more than time enough to find a world.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Time, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.57

• Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Ocean, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.102

• The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1780, Delphi Classics

• Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Death, Night

• Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Real, Dust

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.48

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