Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say...

#James Russell Lowell

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the...

#James Russell Lowell

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect...

#James Russell Lowell

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in...

#James Russell Lowell

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at...

#James Russell Lowell

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

#James Russell Lowell

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but...

#James Russell Lowell

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of...

#James Russell Lowell

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

#James Russell Lowell

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of...

#James Russell Lowell

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

#James Russell Lowell

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

#James Russell Lowell