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
order police mind
Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
knives mind democracy
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
war house mind
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
business risk mind
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
men mind brain
Stern men with empires in their brains.
reading thinking mind
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
style mind literature
It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.
mind left-alone dread
There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
summer snow mind
Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
men presence-of-mind emergencies
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
book reading mind
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
education knowledge desire
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
brave literature weak
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
form government man
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.