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 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 originality human-nature genius Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. James Russell Lowell success inspirational life True love is but a humble, low born thing, James Russell Lowell humble love-is life 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 sap soil generations Tyranny is always weakness James Russell Lowell weakness tyranny What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings. James Russell Lowell soul kings men 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 honest opinion sound The green grass floweth like a stream James Russell Lowell green ocean blue Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. James Russell Lowell love peace children 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 tears simple fall 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 flower evil spring Time makes ancient good uncouth. James Russell Lowell uncouth ancient onward-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 democracy gentleman firsts 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 church humanity men Freedom needs all her poets; it is they James Russell Lowell freedom law wings Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field. James Russell Lowell loyalty bravery may 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 doubt war civilization Not as all other women are James Russell Lowell stars heart life A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard. James Russell Lowell ems politician belief 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 ridiculous simplicity brave
