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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a…
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We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.
— George Bird Grinnell
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What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead…
— Helen Keller
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
— Philip Sidney
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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
— William Arthur Ward
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Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.
— Richard Dawkins
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These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,…
— William Shakespeare
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There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach…
— Louis Agassiz
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The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go…
— William O. Douglas
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Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling,…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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