James Russell Lowell Quotes about Character

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

James Russell Lowell

Happiness, Success, Character

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1871). “THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS.”, p.14

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

James Russell Lowell

Fear, Character, Speak

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.53

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

James Russell Lowell

Character, Foundation, Sap

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1871). “The North American Review”, p.189

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

James Russell Lowell

Inspirational, Loneliness, Character

James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.32

One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.

James Russell Lowell

Character, Break Through, Style

James Russell Lowell (2015). “Abraham Lincoln”, p.22, Sheba Blake Publishing

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

James Russell Lowell

Character, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

"The Works of James Russell Lowell".

All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man.

James Russell Lowell

Heart, Character, Angel

A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.

James Russell Lowell

Wise, Heart, Character

James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.81