01c. 1855 ADExact justice is commonly more merciful in the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
02c. 1855 ADEz for war, I call it murder; / There you hev it plain and flat; / I don't want to go no furder / Than my Testyment for that.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
03c. 1855 ADFor whom the heart of man shuts out, / Straightway the heart of God takes in, / And fences them all round about / With silence 'mid the world's loud din.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
04c. 1855 ADFortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
05c. 1855 ADFrom the summit of power men no longer turn their eyes upward, but begin to look about them.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
06c. 1855 ADGod does not weigh criminality in our scales. God's measure is the heart of the offender, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
07c. 1855 ADGood luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
08c. 1855 ADGreat fleas have little fleas / Upon their backs to bite 'em; / And little fleas have lesser fleas, / And so ad infinitum.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
09c. 1855 ADGreat part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
11c. 1855 ADIf the devil takes a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as he was with them.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
12c. 1855 ADIt is by presence of mind in untried circumstances that the native metal of a man is tested.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
13c. 1855 ADIt is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
14c. 1855 ADIt is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows common-place, as to the rest of us.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
15c. 1855 ADIt is the vain endeavour to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
16c. 1855 ADLife is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
17c. 1855 ADLiterature draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
18c. 1855 ADMen's thoughts and opinions are, in a great degree, vassals of him who invents a new phrase or reapplies an old epithet.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
19c. 1855 ADMost men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
20c. 1855 ADMost religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
21c. 1855 ADNature is always kind enough to give even her clouds a humorous lining.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
22c. 1855 ADNo man is born into this 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 ↗
23c. 1855 ADPatience, when it is a divine thing, is active, not passive.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
24c. 1855 ADPoesy is love's chosen apostle, and the very almoner of God. She is the home of the outcast, and the wealth of the needy.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
