James Russell Lowell Quotes
+3Not what we give, But what we share, For the gift without the giver Is bare.
- James Russell Lowell
+3The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
- James Russell Lowell
+3I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
- James Russell Lowell
+2Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
- James Russell Lowell
+1A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
- James Russell Lowell
+1Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
- James Russell Lowell
+1Light is the symbol of truth.
- James Russell Lowell
+1In creating, the only hard thing’s to begin; a grass blade’s no easier to make than an oak.
- James Russell Lowell
+1Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
- James Russell Lowell
+1We kind o’ thought Christ went agin war an’ pillage.
- James Russell Lowell
+1What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
- James Russell Lowell
+1No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.
- James Russell Lowell
+1Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
- James Russell Lowell
+1The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
- James Russell Lowell
+1The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers, and dreads nothing so much as their charity and patience.
- James Russell Lowell
+1No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
- James Russell Lowell
+1Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
- James Russell Lowell
+1The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
- James Russell Lowell
+1Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
- James Russell Lowell
+1Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell
+1There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
- James Russell Lowell
+1Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That’s why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.
- James Russell Lowell
0Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
- James Russell Lowell