James Russell Lowell Quotes about Spring

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

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

The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell

Weed, Spring, Flower

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

James Russell Lowell

Spring, Flower, Evil

James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.34

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