There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. James Russell Lowell More Quotes by James Russell Lowell More Quotes From James Russell Lowell Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime. James Russell Lowell crime tradition light Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on. James Russell Lowell tyrants slave ignorance Humbleness is always grace; always dignity James Russell Lowell dignity humility grace Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no. James Russell Lowell powerful names long Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw. James Russell Lowell tiny firefly air The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go. James Russell Lowell meadows pulse firefly The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman. James Russell Lowell fool safe common This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur. James Russell Lowell glory waiting Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then James Russell Lowell afar skirts praise A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. James Russell Lowell mother heart love-is For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. James Russell Lowell invention intention motivation The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever. James Russell Lowell work-out destiny men The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. James Russell Lowell moments desire long He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes. James Russell Lowell crush spiritual christian Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave. James Russell Lowell virtue ends path Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design. James Russell Lowell hero perfect men Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. James Russell Lowell blight knowing-who-you-are men O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change. James Russell Lowell abiding visionaries change A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity. James Russell Lowell charity sweet world It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. James Russell Lowell sunny mood lasts
