01c. 1855 ADPoetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
02c. 1855 ADPraise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave. Plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
03c. 1855 ADPride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
04c. 1855 ADReading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
05c. 1855 ADReputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
06c. 1855 ADSentiment is intellectualised emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
07c. 1855 ADSimple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
08c. 1855 ADSincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being; and the pretence saps the very foundations of character.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
09c. 1855 ADThat cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
10c. 1855 ADThat philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathise with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
12c. 1855 ADThe first lesson of literature, no less than of life, is the learning how to burn one's own smoke.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
13c. 1855 ADThe Holy Supper is kept indeed / In whatso we share with another's need; / Not what we give, but what we share, / For the gift without the giver is bare.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
15c. 1855 ADThe only faith that wears well, and holds its colour in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction, and set with the sharp mordant of experience.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
16c. 1855 ADThe path of nature is indeed a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, they do not find themselves cramped therein.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
17c. 1855 ADThe poet's heart is an unlighted torch, which gives no help to his footsteps till love has touched it with flame.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
18c. 1855 ADThe true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of the events that are near him.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
20c. 1855 ADThere are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal into the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
22c. 1855 ADThere is only one thing better than tradition, and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
23c. 1855 ADThough old the thought and oft repress'd, / 'Tis his at last who says it best.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
24c. 1855 ADTo educate the intelligence is to enlarge the horizon of its desires and wants.James Russell Lowell / quote ↗
