James Russell Lowell Quotes about Heaven

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Those who love are but one step from heaven.

Those who love are but one step from heaven.

James Russell Lowell

Love, Heaven, Steps

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.109

The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.

James Russell Lowell

Men, Rivers, Heaven

James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.166

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

James Russell Lowell

Heaven, Asking, May

James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.”, p.56, tredition