James Russell Lowell Quotes
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
- James Russell Lowell
I 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
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
- James Russell Lowell
Light is the symbol of truth.
- James Russell Lowell
In creating, the only hard thing’s to begin; a grass blade’s no easier to make than an oak.
- James Russell Lowell
Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
- James Russell Lowell
We kind o’ thought Christ went agin war an’ pillage.
- James Russell Lowell
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers, and dreads nothing so much as their charity and patience.
- James Russell Lowell
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
- James Russell Lowell
Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
- James Russell Lowell
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
- James Russell Lowell
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell
There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
- James Russell Lowell
Spending 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
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
- James Russell Lowell


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