James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowellwas an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 February 1819
CountryUnited States of America
James Russell Lowell quotes about
rights liberty dare
They have rights who dare maintain them.
freedom feet steps
Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
society rotten ripe
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
temptation philosopher metaphysics
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
ems belief politician
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
god bills
God'll send the bill to you.
god strong dark
Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
order police mind
Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
brave simplicity ridiculous
Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
loss race gains
In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
long age pathways
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.
government race world
All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it
society may next
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
speech
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.