Quotes of James Russell Lowell - somelinesforyou

“ Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ 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

“ Not failure, but low aim, is crime. ”

- James Russell Lowell

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

- James Russell Lowell

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

- James Russell Lowell

“ Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Not failure, but low aim, is a crime. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ That best academy, a mother’s knee. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ True freedom is to share, all the chains our brothers wear. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Not what we give, But what we share, For the gift without the giver Is bare. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Fate loves the fearless. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne. Yet that scaffold sways the future. Behind the dim unknown stands God, Within the shadow keeping watch above his own. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ 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

“ Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ The idol is the measure of the worshipper. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ No price is set on lavish summer;June may be had by the poorest comer. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ 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

“ My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy — onless ye know. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end. ”

- James Russell Lowell
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