James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowellwas an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 February 1819
CountryUnited States of America
men feelings phrases
Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.
men
He's true to God who's true to man.
men humanity church
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
truth men light
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
fate simple men
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.
strength wisdom men
Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
father men brave
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
men soil buried
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
men citizens made
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
men race faces
Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
nature men worn
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
strength strong men
That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
pride men funeral
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
men thinking destiny
The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.