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 More Quotes by James Russell Lowell More Quotes From James Russell Lowell God'll send the bill to you. James Russell Lowell billsgod 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 circlesearthyears The ash her purple drops forgivingly James Russell Lowell sunsetrainfall Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! James Russell Lowell stronggoddark 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 policemindorder 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 atheismrealcountry 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 flowerpridechildren 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 runningmenhands 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 heartsometimeswar 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 devilshapesfather 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 pathwaysagelong In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. James Russell Lowell gainsraceloss 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 oatsspursblood 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 desireenemyneeds O thou, whose days are yet all spring, James Russell Lowell springbelievepast 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 oceanlawsea 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 selfperfectmorning It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity. James Russell Lowell marcharmygreek Nature, they say, doth dote, James Russell Lowell herosweetmen All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it James Russell Lowell governmentraceworld
