James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 18

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• Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

  James Russell Lowell

  Evil, Inward, Driven

  James Russell Lowell, Maria F. Rosetti (1872). “Review of The Shadow of Dante”, p.201

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• The New World's sons from England's breast we drew
  Such milk as bids remember whence we came,
  Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew,
  This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.

  James Russell Lowell

  Son, Past, World

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• Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

  James Russell Lowell

  Archer, Fate, White

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.400

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• It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Forget Everything, Childhood

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.141

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• This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

  James Russell Lowell

  Waiting, Glory

  James Russell Lowell (1859). “The Biglow papers”, p.47

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• How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Littles, Invention

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.445

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• The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.

  James Russell Lowell

  Firefly, Pulse, Meadows

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.16

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• Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.

  James Russell Lowell

  Firefly, Air, Tiny

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.923, Delphi Classics

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• The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

  James Russell Lowell

  Failing, Intellect, Conscience

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.140

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• To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ends, Lows

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.123

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• It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

  James Russell Lowell

  Broken, Purpose, Vain

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1503, Delphi Classics

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• Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Men, Worn

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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• God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Errors, Balance

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• Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Men, Forever

  "The poetical works of John Keats. With a memoir, by James Russell Lowell" by John Keats, James Russell Lowell, New York: J. Miller, 1871.

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• The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

  James Russell Lowell

  Doors, Order, America

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Men, Parliament

  JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1871). “THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS.”, p.26

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• All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thoughtful, Men, Originality

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• Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mean, Liberty, May

  James Russell Lowell (1900). “The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...”

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• Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Safe, Incessant

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.770, Delphi Classics

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• I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

  James Russell Lowell

  Believe, Belief, Interest

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.461, Delphi Classics

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• Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

  James Russell Lowell

  Plagiarism, Garments, Borrowed

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.69

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• The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.

  James Russell Lowell

  Zion, America, Church

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1222, Delphi Classics

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• The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

  James Russell Lowell

  Society, Rotten, Ripe

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.48

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• Communism means barbarism.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mean, Communism, Barbarism

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “Literary and political addresses”

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• The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Real, Lying, Blessed

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1199, Delphi Classics

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