He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. James Russell Lowell More Quotes by James Russell Lowell More Quotes From James Russell Lowell God'll send the bill to you. James Russell Lowell bills god Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it. James Russell Lowell circles earth years The ash her purple drops forgivingly James Russell Lowell sunset rain fall Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! James Russell Lowell strong god dark Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police. James Russell Lowell police mind order It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest. James Russell Lowell atheism real country Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold. James Russell Lowell flower pride children It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads. James Russell Lowell running men hands So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally. James Russell Lowell causes gun thinking Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart. James Russell Lowell heart sometimes war If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them. James Russell Lowell devil shapes father Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave. James Russell Lowell pathways age long In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. James Russell Lowell gains race loss Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood. James Russell Lowell oats spurs blood No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed. James Russell Lowell desire enemy needs O thou, whose days are yet all spring, James Russell Lowell spring believe past There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. James Russell Lowell ocean law sea I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God. James Russell Lowell self perfect morning It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity. James Russell Lowell march army greek Nature, they say, doth dote, James Russell Lowell hero sweet men
