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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.
— Kirsty Gallacher
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China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February…
— Constance Spry
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To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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And I will love words for their own sake, like 'hyacinth' and 'Piccadilly' and 'onyx.' And I'll have a good old dog,…
— Unknown Author
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The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was!…
— Alice Morse Earle
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The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are…
— James Lee
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the…
— Herodotus
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Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the…
— Edgar Quinet
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
— Carl Sandburg
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You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on…
— Leonard Cohen
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