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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!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 am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.
— Audrey Hepburn
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Always remember, wherever you are, whether near or far, you had a mother who really, really loved you. The original mother. Once…
— Zeena Schreck
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He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last…
— Ron Reagan
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Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'.…
— Stephane Hessel
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I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about…
— Elaine Stritch
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As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.
— Joanna Russ
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Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it…
— Willa Cather
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As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them…
— Charles Baxter
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Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we,…
— Joanne Harris
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Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree…
— Holly Black
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My mother once told me that no women is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.
— Mira Grant
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