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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets…
— Anton Chekhov
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Originally I had a block about appearing in a musical. I went to a voice teacher for a while, but that did…
— Rex Harrison
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And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is…
— Zadie Smith
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the…
— Robert Smithson
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I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a…
— Edwidge Danticat
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One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than…
— Mal Peet
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The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from…
— Brady Udall
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The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
— Stephen Hawking
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The brain heals the past like an injury ...
— Arthur Miller
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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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People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
— John Cusack
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