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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!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 is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside…
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To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter…
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A renowned genius once asked a student, "What are you watching when you sit on a hillside in the late afternoon as…
— Jeremy Kagan
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It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors…
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Did you know...that when you walk past a flower, whether it be in somebody's garden or on a vacant hillside, the flower…
— Ron Atchison
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Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.
— V.S. Naipaul
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As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from…
— Celia Thaxter
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He who kisses girl on hillside is not level
— Confucius
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Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.
— Malvina Reynolds
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...he put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all…
— Erica Jong
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Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?
— Mary Oliver
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