Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! James Russell Lowell More Quotes by James Russell Lowell More Quotes From James Russell Lowell Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it. James Russell Lowell deserve fame For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. James Russell Lowell humanity yesterday hands A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship. James Russell Lowell common-sense genius profound The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn. James Russell Lowell white men son The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State. James Russell Lowell church education school Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail. James Russell Lowell strong sky blue But better far it is to speak James Russell Lowell simple sympathy son Taste is the next gift to genius. James Russell Lowell next genius taste I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly. James Russell Lowell strings poet tears Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best. James Russell Lowell degrees feelings men The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself. James Russell Lowell materials Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought. James Russell Lowell century spirit long God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs. James Russell Lowell time men needs There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise. James Russell Lowell eternal-life tradition originals With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual. James Russell Lowell inheritance beautiful travel A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow. James Russell Lowell irritation smart blow It is right precious to behold James Russell Lowell climbing light long A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. James Russell Lowell suffering roots men Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma. James Russell Lowell passion political men It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs. James Russell Lowell printing legs rooms
