Quotes
Quotes - Lowell
Light is the symbol of truth.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
He gives us the very quintessence of perception.
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Every castle of the air Sleeps in the fine black grains, and there Are seeds for every romance, or light Whiff of a dream for a summer night.
Visions for those too tired to sleep, These seeds cast a film over eyes which weep.
Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.
From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the evil in its nature.
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy--onless ye know.
It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours.
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
