3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Poetry 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.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Children are God’s Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new – and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
