02c. 1855 ADBe noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
03c. 1855 ADGreat truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
05c. 1855 ADTwo meanings have our lightest fantasies,— One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
06c. 1855 ADAll thoughts that mould the age begin Deep down within the primitive soul.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
07c. 1855 ADIt may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
08c. 1855 ADNo 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 / quote ↗
09c. 1855 ADThey are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak. . . . . They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
10c. 1855 ADEndurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
11c. 1855 ADOne day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
12c. 1855 ADOnce to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
13c. 1855 ADTruth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
14c. 1855 ADThen to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
16c. 1855 ADDear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
17c. 1855 ADThis child is not mine as the first was; I cannot sing it to rest; I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast. Yet it lies in my little one's cradle, And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she 's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
18c. 1855 ADThe thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
19c. 1855 ADShe doeth little kindnesses Which most leave undone, or despise.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
20c. 1855 ADNot only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
21c. 1855 AD'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
22c. 1855 ADAnd what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
23c. 1855 ADNow the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
