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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!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 regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of…
— Anatole France
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The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they…
— John Eliot
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I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it.…
— Peter Kreeft
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I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains!
— Reinhard Bonnke
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The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
— Michelangelo
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A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might…
— Stephen Crane
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Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it…
— Maureen Dowd
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Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our…
— Lydia M. Child
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To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be…
— Clint Eastwood
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The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
— Neil Kinnock
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