James Russell Lowell: Man

James Russell Lowell was American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. Explore interesting quotes on man.

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“It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.”

James Russell Lowell

Abraham Lincoln http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/1lncn10h.htm (1864)

“Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.”

James Russell Lowell

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

“And I honor the man who is willing to sink
Half his present repute for the freedom to think,
And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,
Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak,
Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store,
Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.”

James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics

Pt. V - Cooper, st. 3
A Fable for Critics (1848)

“Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just;
Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside,
Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified,
And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.”

James Russell Lowell The Present Crisis

St. 11
The Present Crisis (1844)