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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.
— Lady Bird Johnson
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With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.
— Nhat Hanh
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
— Claude Monet
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much…
— Marcel Proust
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You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits…
— Rumi
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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will…
— Gautama Buddha
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I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks…
— Sara Bonnett Stein
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One bright pansy popping through a sidewalk crack will get weeded or stepped on; it's not until twenty fabulous flowers bust through…
— S. Bear Bergman
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Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn,…
— Sri Chinmoy
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There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's…
— Augustus William Hare
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