Quotes
Quotes - Lowell
Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime-- Not failure, but low aim is crime.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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.
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.
Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.
The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.
Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare.
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'ything thet's done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.
When I could not sleep for cold I had fire enough in my brain, And builded with roofs of gold My beautiful castles in Spain!
The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays.
No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.
Light is the symbol of truth.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Books, 1870.
Youth condemns; maturity condones.
Even Pain pricks to livelier living.
O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee To make the charmed body Almost like spirit be, And give it some faint glimpses Of immortality.
That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
