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“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”
James Russell Lowell
“Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”
James Russell Lowell
“Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.”
James Russell Lowell
“Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.”
James Russell Lowell
“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
James Russell Lowell
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
James Russell Lowell
“Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.”
James Russell Lowell
“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.”
James Russell Lowell
“Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
James Russell Lowell
“Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.”
James Russell Lowell
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
James Russell Lowell
“Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.”
James Russell Lowell
“On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.”
James Russell Lowell
“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
James Russell Lowell
“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”
James Russell Lowell
“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
James Russell Lowell
“As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.”
James Russell Lowell
“Folks never understand the folks they hate.”
James Russell Lowell
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
James Russell Lowell
“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.”
James Russell Lowell
“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”
James Russell Lowell
“Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.”
James Russell Lowell
“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.”
James Russell Lowell
“Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.”
James Russell Lowell
“It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.”
James Russell Lowell
“Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.”
James Russell Lowell
“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.”
James Russell Lowell
“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.”
James Russell Lowell
“In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.”
James Russell Lowell
“There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.”
James Russell Lowell
