Home / Quotes / Quote by James Russell Lowell

Quote by James Russell Lowell

“A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.”

Quote by James Russell Lowell

Author

James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell was an American poet, born on February 22, 1819, and died on August 12, 1891. His poetry is known for its profound social insights and admiration for nature. more

You May Also Like

“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.”

Stills Self Felt Perfect Morning Praying Conscious Thrice

Author:James Russell Lowell

“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.”

Long Age Approach Graves Visible Thread Worms Long Life Cradle Pathways Scarce

Book:My Study Windows

Source: My Study Windows

“The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush; All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.”

Fall Sea Rain Rounds Edges Woods Sunset Farmers Ashes Brushes Leafs Purple Creeps Cautious Ripple Swamps Hush Maple

Book:The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations

Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations

“Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.”

Made Stuff Memories Attention Genius

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“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.”

Body Law Certain Force Sea Easier Ocean Depth Deeper Sinking Hinder Baseness

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing.”

Believe Past Belief Victory Spring Dumb

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“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.”

Needs Humans Desire Human Beings Enemy Flaws Sincere Philanthropy Oppressed Doing Good Benevolence Oppressors

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“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.”

Kind May Blood Pace Spurs Jade Thoroughbreds Oats

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.”

Way May Given Fields Truth Is Bravery Loyalty Closets

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.”

Thousand Ten Army Greek March Posterity Brevity Compact

Book:Among My Books: First [-second] series

Source: Among My Books: First [-second] series