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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north…
— Wallace Stevens
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The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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Nothing easier. One step beyond the pole, you see, and the north wind becomes a south one.
— Robert Peary
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If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs,…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and…
— William Carlos Williams
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...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the…
— George MacDonald
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Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter…
— George R. R. Martin
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Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant... Rose? The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake!…
— Gareth Roberts
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If the sky above you rows dark and full of clouds and that old north wind begins to blow. Keep your head…
— Carole King
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