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James Russell Lowell Quotes about Heart

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

James Russell Lowell

Heart, Brain, Easy

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

James Russell Lowell

Patience, Passion, Heart

James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics

One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.

James Russell Lowell

Life, Time, Heart

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.57

A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.

James Russell Lowell

Mother, Heart, Love Is

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.30

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

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

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.

James Russell Lowell

Loneliness, Heart, Men

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.16

Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

James Russell Lowell

Heart, Eye, Clouds

James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.118

Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the natural way of living.

James Russell Lowell

Heart, Blue, Sky

James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.3

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

James Russell Lowell

Heart, Past, History

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.402

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

James Russell Lowell

Happiness, Heart, Gods Will

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.33, tredition

Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.

James Russell Lowell

Life, Stars, Heart

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.6

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

James Russell Lowell

Heart, Pity

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.168

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

James Russell Lowell

Weed, Heart, Winning

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.113

Better to me the poor mans crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That is no true alms which the hand can hold; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, - The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a god goes with it and makes it store To the soul that was starving in darkness before.

James Russell Lowell

Running, Heart, Blessing

James Russell Lowell, “The Vision Of Sir Launfal”

Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

James Russell Lowell

Heart, Suffering, Woe

James Russell Lowell (1869). “Under the Willows, and Other Poems”, p.236

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

James Russell Lowell

Heart, Anxiety, Tense

Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our ages drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.

James Russell Lowell

Nature, Heart, Blood

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.117

Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap, - You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat.... Look! look! that livid flash! And instantly follows the rattling thunder, As if some cloud-crag, split asunder, Fell, splintering with a ruinous crash, On the Earth, which crouches in silence under; And now a solid gray wall of rain Shuts off the landscape, mile by mile.

James Russell Lowell

Wall, Rain, Heart

In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.

James Russell Lowell

Kings, Heart, Blessing

James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.176, Delphi Classics

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the past may have been, 'T is enough for us now that the leaves are green; We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell... The breeze comes whispering in our ear, That dandelions are blossoming near... Every thing is upward striving; 'T is as easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue, - 'T is the natural way of living.

James Russell Lowell

Summer, Heart, Past

James Russell Lowell, “The Vision Of Sir Launfal”

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

Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!

James Russell Lowell

Beautiful, Heart, Soul

James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

James Russell Lowell

Heart, Musical, Strings

James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.48

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

James Russell Lowell

Heart, Soul, Genius

James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.357

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