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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to…
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We used to sing along to Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald records together. She had the most amazing voice ... She's always…
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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— Dennis Hastert
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In the many trials of life, when we feel abandoned and when sorrow, sin, disappointment, failure, and weakness make us less than…
— James E. Faust
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes,…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.
— John Climacus
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Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its…
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