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

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

James Russell Lowell
Brother, Heart, Equality
James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.125

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

James Russell Lowell
Men, Presence Of Mind, Emergencies
Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A”, Cosimo, Inc.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

James Russell Lowell
Inspirational, Weed, Nature
James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

James Russell Lowell
Truth, Honesty, Heart
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.116

Stern men with empires in their brains.

James Russell Lowell
Men, Brain, Mind
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.272

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

James Russell Lowell
Evil, Sides, Conflict
James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis”

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

James Russell Lowell
Truth, Lying, Different Faces
James Russell Lowell (1886). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

James Russell Lowell
Light, Lamps, Grows
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.406

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

James Russell Lowell
Truth, Honesty, Integrity

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

James Russell Lowell
Love, Peace, Children

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

James Russell Lowell
Summer, July, Bees
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

James Russell Lowell
Past, Mirrors, Promise
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.48

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

James Russell Lowell
Temptation, Philosopher, Metaphysics
James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.119

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

James Russell Lowell
Truth, Forever, Thrones
"The Present Crisis" st. 8 (1845)

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

James Russell Lowell
Humility, Equality, People
James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.49

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

James Russell Lowell
Hypocrisy, Devil, Intolerance
James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.83

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold... 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking; There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer.

James Russell Lowell
Summer, Money, Lying
James Russell Lowell, Nathan Haskell Dole (1893). “The Early Poems of James Russell Lowell: With Biographical Sketch”

The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with anothers need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

James Russell Lowell
Giving, Three, Needs
James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.46, tredition

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

James Russell Lowell
Shadow, Watches, Breaking Silence
James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis”

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

James Russell Lowell
Memories, Knowledge, Mean

Endurance is the crowning quality.

James Russell Lowell
Perseverance, Quality, Endurance
James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.133

That best academy, a mother's knee.

James Russell Lowell
Family, Mothers Day, Mom

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

James Russell Lowell
Inspirational, Life, Success
James Russell Lowell (1892). “Literary and political addresses”

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.

James Russell Lowell
Dream, Giving, Imagination
James Russell Lowell (1888). “The English Poets Lessing: Rousseau”

History is clarified experience.

James Russell Lowell
History
James Russell Lowell (1910). “Literary and political addresses”

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