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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will…
— Philip K. Dick
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The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.
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No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone…
— Erica Jong
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The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our…
— Sam Keen
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History has a Nemesis for every sin.
— Theodor Mommsen
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Fusion has been my nemesis.
— Pete La Roca
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Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.
— Sam Tanenhaus
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Restlessness is my nemesis/ It's hard to just chill and sit still
— Mos Def
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Never sleep in a small tent with your nemesis.
— Tom Chappell
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My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.
— Jennifer O'Neill
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Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their…
— David Agus
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The difference between fear and panic is knowing what to do. If you have a reliable, effective solution then fear is an…
— Marc MacYoung
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