Quotes By James Russell Lowell

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Fate loves the fearless.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

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.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

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.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

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

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

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.