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John Greenleaf Whittier has 143 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and…
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The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.
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He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward…
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We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never…
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Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our…
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God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good…
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I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and…
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God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall…
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And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
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Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland…
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The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe…
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So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering…
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The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air…
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They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and…
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He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a…
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He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late…
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Oh baby," he whispers. Steps back. Out of the doorway. His face ashen. He walks slowly back to the kitchen. Leans over…
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I need your help.” Royce looked up as if his head weighed a hundred pounds, his eyes red, his face ashen. He…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and…
— Nicholas Gordon
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