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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus…
— Vinoba Bhave
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What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and…
— Swami Vivekananda
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All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its…
— William Butler Yeats
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Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses…
— William Wordsworth
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Find your own 'sweet spot'. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them.
— Kofi Awoonor
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The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my…
— Heinrich Heine
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Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
— Lenny Kravitz
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Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting…
— Margaret George
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We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting…
— Anton Chekhov
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