I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest. James Russell Lowell More Quotes by James Russell Lowell More Quotes From James Russell Lowell Sorrow is the great idealizer. James Russell Lowell great-ideasorrowgrief The gift without the giver is rare. James Russell Lowell generositythank-yougiving Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth. James Russell Lowell youthlovepromise Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal. James Russell Lowell truthlovemen Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run. James Russell Lowell winterrunninglong Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. James Russell Lowell sleepmenlying To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view. James Russell Lowell viewsdarkmen And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl. James Russell Lowell pearlstreesnow They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak. James Russell Lowell speakfearcharacter There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual James Russell Lowell sensualselflife-is Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. James Russell Lowell democracies-havefreedommen The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. James Russell Lowell colorfaithweather There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. James Russell Lowell pirateoceansea Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. James Russell Lowell disciplineexampleliterature Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain. James Russell Lowell tenseanxietyheart An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. James Russell Lowell runninglongpeople Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. James Russell Lowell returnliteraturegiving It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. James Russell Lowell geniusliteraturedoe Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. James Russell Lowell successhappinesscharacter The surest plan to make a man is, think him so. James Russell Lowell destinymenthinking
