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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.


James Russell Lowell

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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into head...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL It is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamanti...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the f...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot b...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mi...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL All kin' o' smily round the lips, / An' teary round the lashes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which n...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope and peace
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Light is the symbol of truth
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in ma...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit; For th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrift...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course Yea, ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work, And tool...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo good, to reach ful...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The shadow of a mighty name.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Patience revels in misfortunes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL