546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

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; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;.

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.

Earth’s biggest country ‘s gut her soul, An’ risen up earth’s greatest nation.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can’t write, can surely review.