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 What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born. James Russell Lowell christmas sweet mean And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race. James Russell Lowell race ease two My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know. James Russell Lowell grans crow prophecy The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch. James Russell Lowell sixteen atmosphere squares The child is not mine as the first was, James Russell Lowell light lying children Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, James Russell Lowell light truth men The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white. James Russell Lowell white snow night Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it. James Russell Lowell gods-will heart happiness Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. James Russell Lowell thrones truth forever In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. James Russell Lowell fudge vain stealing 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. James Russell Lowell soil born men Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. James Russell Lowell citizens nature men Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. James Russell Lowell elderly race men He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory. James Russell Lowell perception giving memories Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many. James Russell Lowell aspiration argument sides Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven. James Russell Lowell i-believe heaven believe Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation. James Russell Lowell soul earth country They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin. James Russell Lowell compromise sin children Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. James Russell Lowell memorial safe past Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving. James Russell Lowell conniving fate life
