A Quote by James Russell Lowell

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

James Russell Lowell

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James Russell Lowell
American - Poet
February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.

Mercedes Lackey

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

Confucius

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Richard Whately

By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which give to them an inconquerable vitality of spirit which breaks down all barriers as wheat bends before the wind.

Walter Russell

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Honore de Balzac

There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.

Leo Tolstoy

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

Carter G. Woodson

There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.

Richard Paul Evans

There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.

Jennifer James

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

Ernest Hemingway

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Walter Scott

Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.

Lord Dunsany

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

Joseph de Maistre

There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.

Abraham Kuyper

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.