Джеймс Расселл Лоуэлл цитаты страница 4

„Спорить с неизбежностью бесполезно. Единственный аргумент против холодного ветра — теплое пальто.“

„Возможно, молодость — порок, но только чересчур быстро излечиваемый возрастом.“

„Демократия – политическая система, при которой каждый имеет право быть своим собственным угнетателем.“

„Неудача — не преступление; преступно ставить перед собой цели ниже своих возможностей.“

„Талант — дар, над которым властвует человек; гений — дар, властвующий над самим человеком.“

„Я не верю в принципы, но я верю в заинтересованность.“

„Судьба любит бесстрашное.“

“Under the yaller pines I house,
When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented,
An' hear among their furry boughs
The baskin' west-wind purr contented.”

Джеймс Расселл Лоуэлл: Цитаты на английском языке

“We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.”

No. 10.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“It ain't by princerples nor men
My preudunt course is steadied—
I scent wich pays the best, an' then
Go into it baldheaded.”

No. 3
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“If there are men who regret the Good Old Times, without too clear a notion of what they were, they should at least be thankful that we are rid of that misguided energy of faith which justifies conscience in making men unrelentingly cruel.”

No. 6, st. 10
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life, and they solved it with singular discretion. They put as many obstacles as they could contrive, not in the way of the people's will, but of their whim.”

Witchcraft
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890)

“The very room, coz she was in,
Seemed warm from floor to ceilin”

On Democracy (6 October 1884)

“Tain’t by turnin’ out to hack folks
You’re agoin’ to git your right,
Nor by lookin’ down on black folks
Coz you’re put upon by white;
Slavery ain’t o’ nary color,
’Tain’t the hide thet makes it wus,
All it keers fer in a feller
’S jest to make him fill its pus.”

The Courtin' .
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“Our papers don't purtend to print on'y wut Guv'ment choose,
An' thet insures us all to git the very best o' noose.”

No. 1, st. 6
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast
Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest.”

No. 3.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences in belief.”

"On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington" (1845)

“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.”

Witchcraft
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890)

“The wisest man could ask no more of Fate
Than to be simple, modest, manly, true,
Safe from the Many — honored by the Few;
To count as naught in World or Church or State;
But inwardly in secret to be great.”

On Democracy (6 October 1884)

“Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides
Into the silent hollow of the past;
What is there that abides
To make the next age better for the last?”

James Russell Lowell Sonnet

Sonnet, Jeffries Wyman (1874)

“Wut's words to them whose faith an' truth
On war's red techstone rang true metal;
Who ventered life an' love an' youth
For the gret prize o' death in battle?”

St. 3. <br class="br"> Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1169/ (July 21, 1865)

“The surest plan to make a Man
Is, think him so.”

No. 10.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“The Maple puts her corals on in May,
While loitering frosts about the lowlands cling,
To be in tune with what the robins sing.”

No. 2.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“Here was a type of the true elder race,
And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.”

Sonnet, The Maple http://www.theatlantic.com/ideastour/archive/lowell.mhtml (1875)

“Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many.”

St. 5. <br class="br"> Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1169/ (July 21, 1865)

“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.”

Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago

“Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.”

Garfield (24 September 1881)

“Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.”

Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago

“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”

Columbus (1844)

“Laborin' man an' laborin' woman
Hev one glory an' one shame;
Ev'y thin' thet's done inhuman
Injers all on 'em the same.”

Dryden
Literary Essays, vol. III (1870-1890)

“Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.”

No. 1, st. 5
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“One day with life and heart
Is more than time enough to find a world.”

Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), Rousseau and the Sentimentalists

“How little inventiveness there is in man,
Grave copier of copies, I give thanks
For a new relish, careless to inquire
My pleasure's pedigree, if so it please,
Nobly, I mean, nor renegade to art.
The Grecian gluts me with its perfectness,
Unanswerable as Euclid, self-contained,
The one thing finished in this hasty world,
Forever finished, though the barbarous pit,
Fanatical on hearsay, stamp and shout
As if a miracle could be encored.”

Columbus (1844)

“Both of them mean that Labor has no rights which Capital is bound to respect,—that there is no higher law than human interest and cupidity.”

The Cathedral, st. 9

“He stood a spell on one foot fust
Then stood a spell on t' other,
An' on which one he felt the wust
He could n't ha' told ye nuther.”

Referring to John C. Breckenridge and Stephen A. Douglas (Abraham Lincoln's opponents)
The Election in November 1860 (1860)

“An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.”

The Courtin' .
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“Ez fer war, I call it murder—
There you hev it plain an' flat;
I don't want to go no furder
Than my Testyment fer that.”

On Democracy (6 October 1884)