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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell
Love, Inspirational, Life
1867 'Rousseau and the Sentimentalists', in the North American Review, Jul.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

James Russell Lowell
Life, Happiness, Success
James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.523, Delphi Classics

True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world.

James Russell Lowell
Life, Humble, Love Is
James Russell Lowell, “Love”

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

James Russell Lowell
Life, Beautiful, Creativity

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

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

James Russell Lowell
Life, Real, Dust
James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.48

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

James Russell Lowell
Life, Ocean, Men
James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.102

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”

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell
Inspirational, Life, Change
James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1780, Delphi Classics

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

James Russell Lowell
Life, Death, Night

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

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

James Russell Lowell
Life, Fate, Conniving
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.430

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

James Russell Lowell
Life, Time, Fate
James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The poetical works”

Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

James Russell Lowell
Life, Truth, War
James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.600, Delphi Classics

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

James Russell Lowell
Life, Destiny, Men
James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.234

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