Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation. James Russell Lowell More Quotes by James Russell Lowell More Quotes From James Russell Lowell All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves. James Russell Lowell thoughtful originality men Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. James Russell Lowell fate wish success Idleness induces caprice. James Russell Lowell caprice idleness Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint. James Russell Lowell restraint power self The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it. James Russell Lowell real blessed lying A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. James Russell Lowell meaningful friendship funny 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love; But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the Glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God. James Russell Lowell angel eye love Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity. James Russell Lowell eternity soul men Better to me the poor mans crust, James Russell Lowell blessing heart running The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, James Russell Lowell three giving needs His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle. James Russell Lowell pity heart To win the secret of a weed's plain heart. James Russell Lowell weed winning heart It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous. James Russell Lowell revolution rights men And blessed are the horny hands of toil. James Russell Lowell horny blessed hands Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. James Russell Lowell liberty may mean I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest. James Russell Lowell interest belief believe The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great. James Russell Lowell fate simple men It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled. James Russell Lowell destiny education america Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. James Russell Lowell eggs religious believe Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons. James Russell Lowell towers looks past
