And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. James Russell Lowell More Quotes by James Russell Lowell More Quotes From 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 weaknesspridespring The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change. James Russell Lowell riperottensociety Communism means barbarism. James Russell Lowell barbarismcommunismmean They have rights who dare maintain them. James Russell Lowell darelibertyrights One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him. James Russell Lowell break-throughstylecharacter Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the natural way of living. James Russell Lowell skyblueheart Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday. James Russell Lowell treefallthinking A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man. James Russell Lowell wiseheartcharacter It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. James Russell Lowell readingmindthinking Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men. James Russell Lowell poetrypridemen The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst. James Russell Lowell treasontraitorhumanity You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God. James Russell Lowell gutswant It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. James Russell Lowell masterylogicpoetry Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow. James Russell Lowell sunsetsummersnow He's true to God who's true to man. James Russell Lowell men Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves. James Russell Lowell slaveheroeasy Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue. James Russell Lowell fatelove-issweet With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer. James Russell Lowell growsspiritsight The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. James Russell Lowell generationssocietymay In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. James Russell Lowell speech
