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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself…
— Willa Cather
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
— Jean Cocteau
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the…
— Sam Abell
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I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the…
— Alexander Whyte
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When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms…
— Djuna Barnes
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Be quick without hurrying.
— John Wooden
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A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties.…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
— E. M. Forster
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There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better…
— Mary Steenburgen
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Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more,…
— Tryon Edwards
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How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not…
— John Keats
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