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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.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

James Russell Lowell
Love, Broken Heart, Sorrow
James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.284, Delphi Classics

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

James Russell Lowell
Love, Peace, Children

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

James Russell Lowell
Love, Spring, Wide
James Russell Lowell (1841). “A year's life”, p.159

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

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

James Russell Lowell
Love, Eye, Angel
James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.55

I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.

James Russell Lowell
Love, Peace, Rivers
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love; But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the Glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God.

James Russell Lowell
Love, Eye, Angel

Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.

James Russell Lowell
Love, Love Life, Bless
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.105

Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

James Russell Lowell
Love, Promise, Youth
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

James Russell Lowell
Love, Truth, Men

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