James Russell Lowell Quotes

By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, thy bleeding feet we track
Toiling up new Calv'ries ever with the cross that turns not back
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth
We must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth

"On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

Kesombongan dan kelemahan adalah kembar siam.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

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.

There was no beauty of the wood or field
But she its fragrant bosom-secret knew,
Nor any but to her would freely yield
Some grace that in her soul took root and grew;
Nature to her shone as but now revealed,
All rosy-fresh with innocent morning dew,
And looked into her heart with dim, sweet eyes
That left it full of sylvan memories.

En general, quienes no tienen nada que decir invierten el mayor tiempo posible en no decir nada.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne. Yet that scaffold sways the future.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.

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

of courage and security from every sod of it would have evaporated beyond recall. We should be irrevocably cut

In creating the only hard thing's to begin

The surest plan to make a Man
Is, think him so.