There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russell Lowell More Quotes by James Russell Lowell More Quotes From James Russell Lowell The one thing finished in this hasty world. James Russell Lowell hastyfinishedworld How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it. James Russell Lowell dancingfeetblood They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. James Russell Lowell mountainbloodthinking If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by. James Russell Lowell shouldanswersbook From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature. James Russell Lowell embryosnextevil Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. James Russell Lowell wornnaturemen There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on. James Russell Lowell nailsgoldfirsts Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God. James Russell Lowell murderwantwar We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. James Russell Lowell kindwarchrist In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science. James Russell Lowell latteragescience No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil. James Russell Lowell blessedworkmen A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes. James Russell Lowell weedflowereye Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character. James Russell Lowell There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russell Lowell They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy. James Russell Lowell We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.' James Russell Lowell Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty. James Russell Lowell Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. James Russell Lowell goodgood-luckluckcharacter Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. James Russell Lowell goodpoorpoliticswise
