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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!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 always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I…
— Anne Burrell
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive…
— Yasser Arafat
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
— Thucydides
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I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as…
— Sybille Bedford
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An olive, with a pit...
— Unknown Author
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Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the…
— Bertrand Russell
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The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard…
— Ruth Reichl
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I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and…
— Joe Pantoliano
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A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes…
— Nick Harkaway
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It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family…
— Gabrielle Hamilton
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