James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 9

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• Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Bravery, Literature, Weak

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• Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Circles, Years, Earth

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.181

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• In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Speech

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.365

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• The green grass floweth like a stream
  Into the oceans's blue.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Blue, Green

  James Russell Lowell, “The Sirens”

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• It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

  James Russell Lowell

  Legs, Rooms, Printing

  James Russell Lowell (1897). “Literary and political addresses”

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• I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Peace, Rivers

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

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• The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

  James Russell Lowell

  Night, White, Snow

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.631, Delphi Classics

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• 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

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• Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

  James Russell Lowell

  Strength, Wisdom, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.147

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• There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Victory, Sun

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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• Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Originality, Human Nature

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.63

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• Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.

  James Russell Lowell

  Soil, Generations, Sap

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• What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

  James Russell Lowell

  Kings, Men, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.103

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• This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sound, Opinion, Honest

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

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• The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Simple, Tears

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.16

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• Time makes ancient good uncouth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Onward And Upward, Ancient, Uncouth

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• Freedom needs all her poets; it is they
  Who give her aspirations wings,
  And to the wiser law of music sway
  Her wild imaginings.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Law, Wings

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.107

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• Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Sleep, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1853). “Poems”, p.220

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• It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Rights, Revolution

  "Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes".

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• Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

  James Russell Lowell

  Loyalty, Bravery, May

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

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• 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

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• The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thieves, Rust, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary and political addresses”

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• 'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heaven, Asking, May

  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.56, tredition

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• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith, Color, Weather

  Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

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