“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.”
Experience
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
ImaginationAll Quotes by James Russell Lowell
“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
Sympathy“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.”
Beauty“Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.”
God“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
Freedom“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
Imagination“Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”
Government“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.”
God“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.”
Failure“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.”
Truth“Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.”
Death“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.”
Great“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.”
Great“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”
Work“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.”
Anger“Light is the symbol of truth.”
Truth“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.”
Truth“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.”
Change“The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.”
Truth“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”
Intelligence