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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling…
— Gretchen Mol
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Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not…
— Samuel Rutherford
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It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more…
— H. L. Mencken
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That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.
— Steven Curtis Chapman
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On politics I strive as much as possible to let my passions be for God and for the Church and for others…
— Scot McKnight
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What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries,…
— James Rollins
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When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
— John Lyly
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Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help…
— Henry Francis Lyte
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Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
— Silius Italicus
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Its not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs…
— Thomas Keller
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