They are slaves who fear to speak,For the fallen and the weak.
"James Russell Lowell" was an American Romanticism/Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More James Russell Lowell on Wikipedia.The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
I think he's doing a good job of it, hanging in.
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
The only thing they can do for these two years is serve. No other activity.
They are both valiant young men who served enthusiastically. They're bold missionaries, diligent, just trying their best to serve to the best of their ability. It's just so unfortunate that something like this could happen.
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
You can drag something onto a page, preview it to see what it looks like, tweak it and put it into production very quickly. You can do very useful things with not a lot of lines of code.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
For the first time in years the bad-loan problem is over.
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
We don't see any reason to change. This was not a bad area they were in.
The message about Jesus Christ is for all people. The poorest people and the richest people. So we don't try to avoid areas.
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
What happened to these young men, it had nothing to do with religion. It was a random thing. They just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time doing the right thing.
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
Most people are convinced that bottled water, juice and things like Gatorade are the healthier way to go. Pepsi Bottling has done a dynamite job of getting that message out and distributing their products.
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
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