It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.


The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Among my books (ed. 1904)

James Russell Lowell Quotes

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.