How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies. James Russell Lowell More Quotes by James Russell Lowell More Quotes From James Russell Lowell Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. James Russell Lowell originalityhuman-naturegenius Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. James Russell Lowell successinspirationallife True love is but a humble, low born thing, James Russell Lowell humblelove-islife Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface. James Russell Lowell sapsoilgenerations Tyranny is always weakness James Russell Lowell weaknesstyranny What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings. James Russell Lowell soulkingsmen This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. James Russell Lowell honestopinionsound The green grass floweth like a stream James Russell Lowell greenoceanblue Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. James Russell Lowell lovepeacechildren The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out. James Russell Lowell tearssimplefall Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth. James Russell Lowell flowerevilspring Time makes ancient good uncouth. James Russell Lowell uncouthancientonward-and-upward Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman. James Russell Lowell democracygentlemanfirsts The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God. James Russell Lowell churchhumanitymen Freedom needs all her poets; it is they James Russell Lowell freedomlawwings Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field. James Russell Lowell loyaltybraverymay The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine. James Russell Lowell doubtwarcivilization Not as all other women are James Russell Lowell starsheartlife A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard. James Russell Lowell emspoliticianbelief Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine. James Russell Lowell ridiculoussimplicitybrave
