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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!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 eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
— Thomas Carlyle
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With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why…
— Bertrand Russell
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Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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The rocks are where they are- and this is their will. The rivers flow- and this is their will. The birds fly-…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, "It is time…
— Joshua L. Liebman
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We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine.
— Michel Quoist
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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The world is the same you never change it, as sure as the stars shine above. Well, you're nobody til somebody loves…
— Dean Martin
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Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.
— Michio Kaku
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Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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