« All Stately Quotes
·
John Greenleaf Whittier's Page
Stately Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
1 Stately quote by John Greenleaf Whittier
More Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier has 143 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and…
-
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.
-
He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward…
-
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…
-
Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our…
-
God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good…
-
I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and…
-
God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall…
-
And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
-
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland…
-
The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe…
-
So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
See all 143 quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier »
More Stately Quotes
Popular Stately quotes from across the collection:
-
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the…
— Francis Bacon
-
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
-
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
— Richard Sibbes
-
She's like a queen, magnificently tall, with a lovely figure, a stately neck, and a face of the most delicate and finished…
— Unknown Author
-
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined…
— Seneca the Younger
-
But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes…
— John Milton
-
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately…
— William Jennings Bryan
-
While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of…
— Gwynne Dyer
-
Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
-
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
-
A stately pleasure-dome decree.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
See all Stately Quotes »
Browse John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes by Category