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James Russell Lowell quotes - page 10
No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
James Russell Lowell
He gives us the very quintessence of perception,the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
James Russell Lowell
Moliere Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.
James Russell Lowell
I tell ye wut, my judgment is youre pooty sure to fail, Ez long z the head keeps turnin back for counsel to the the tail.
James Russell Lowell
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
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
James Russell Lowell
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
James Russell Lowell
'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love But all God's angels come to us disguised Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the Glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God.
James Russell Lowell
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
James Russell Lowell
'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
James Russell Lowell
There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
James Russell Lowell
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
James Russell Lowell
The one thing finished in this hasty world.
James Russell Lowell
The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
James Russell Lowell
Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the 'Faery Queen.'
James Russell Lowell
Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.
James Russell Lowell
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
James Russell Lowell
Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
James Russell Lowell
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
James Russell Lowell
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it and blessed are the eyes that find it.
James Russell Lowell
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.
James Russell Lowell
Ez fer war, I call it murder, There you hev it plain an' flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. .... . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
James Russell Lowell
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