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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!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 voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by…
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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.
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Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too…
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To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder…
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the…
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we…
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But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public…
— James Madison
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Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into…
— Albert Einstein
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I happen to believe the world will change only when we change ourselves. And that starts with finding ourselves: learning to quiet…
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