James Russell Lowell Quotes on Morality
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Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.
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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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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.
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Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.
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Ez fer war, I call it murder- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that.
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A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
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In the scales of the destinies brawn will never weigh so much as brain. Our healing is not in the storm or in the whirlwind, it is not in monarchies, or aristocracies, or democracies, but will be revealed by the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart, prompting us to a wider and wiser humanity.