“Earth’s noblest thing, — a woman perfected.”

— James Russell Lowell

Irené

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Earth’s noblest thing, — a woman perfected." by James Russell Lowell?

James Russell Lowell 175

American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891

Related quotes

“Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.”

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 54

“Man, who is the noblest part of the earth, melts so away as if he were a statue, not of earth, but of snow.”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

II. Actio Læsa; The strength, and the functions of the senses, and other faculties change and fail.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow,
A herb most bruised is woman.”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea (431 BC), Lines 230–231 in Gilbert Murray's translation ( p. 15 https://archive.org/stream/medeatranslatedi00euriuoft#page/15/mode/1up)

“The grandest of all things is to be in the highest and noblest sense a man.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: I believe in intellectual hospitality. I love men that have a little horizon to their minds -- a little sky, a little scope. I hate anything that is narrow and pinched and withered and mean and crawling, and that is willing to live on dust. I believe in creating such an atmosphere that things will burst into blossom. I believe in good will, good health, good fellowship, good feeling -- and if there is any God on the earth, or in heaven, let us hope that he will be generous and grand. Do you not see what the effect will be? I am not cursing you because you are a Methodist, and not damning you because you are a Catholic, or because you are an Infidel -- a good man is more than all of these. The grandest of all things is to be in the highest and noblest sense a man.