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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
— Joseph Addison
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Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow…
— Terry Kay
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Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget…
— Unknown Author
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At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.
— Wallace Stevens
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I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because…
— Bobbie Ann Mason
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The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living,…
— John McLeod
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The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.
— Elliott Smith
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Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story,…
— Lauren DeStefano
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We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.
— Susan Griffin
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The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns;…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
— Anne Stevenson
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