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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
— Richard Watson Gilder
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Kindness is not like a barter, so much for so much; or so much by contract, and my duty done. But kindness…
— James Vila Blake
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The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
— George MacDonald
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There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.
— Robert E. Lee
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We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. .…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another
— George Eliot
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