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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know…
— Vera Brittain
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Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together…
— Charles Fletcher Dole
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And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they…
— Horace Mann
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Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in…
— Albert Pike
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I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let…
— James M. Barrie
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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we…
— James M. Barrie
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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone…
— Horace Mann
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