Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. James Russell Lowell More Quotes by James Russell Lowell More Quotes From James Russell Lowell All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it James Russell Lowell government race world Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius. James Russell Lowell genius attention memories Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. James Russell Lowell breaking-silence shadow watches A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy? James Russell Lowell church men father The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does. James Russell Lowell doe world thinking Stern men with empires in their brains. James Russell Lowell mind brain men May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind. James Russell Lowell real spring wind They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. James Russell Lowell hatred two thinking Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests. James Russell Lowell deities analysis tests A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller. James Russell Lowell purpose principles might Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us. James Russell Lowell being-thankful simple country Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. James Russell Lowell vices half stories It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is. James Russell Lowell practice class book A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point. James Russell Lowell devil poison hands Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet. James Russell Lowell rain wind fall Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this. James Russell Lowell incessant safe past An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went. James Russell Lowell vision angel doorways How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies. James Russell Lowell invention littles men The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building. James Russell Lowell zion church america The pine is the mother of legends. James Russell Lowell legends mother
