James Russell Lowell Quotes about Pride

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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

James Russell Lowell

Pride, Men, Funeral

James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

James Russell Lowell

Pride, Weakness, Twins

James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.201

Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

James Russell Lowell

Spring, Pride, Weakness

James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1818, Delphi Classics

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

James Russell Lowell

Children, Flower, Pride

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.82