"And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And……" — John Greenleaf Whittier
"And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!"
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139 Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier has 139 quotes on this site.
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Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly…
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The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate…
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He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise,…
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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…
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Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And…
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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,…
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I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His…
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God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over…
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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…
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The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt…
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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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More Altars Quotes
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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes…
— William Hazlitt
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace…
— Peter Chrysologus
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If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be…
— David Brewster
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for…
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of…
— Adolf Hitler
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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
— Alexander Pope
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Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest,…
— Myrtle Reed
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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;…
— Edmund Burke
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The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across…
— Wess Stafford
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The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling…
— Luther Standing Bear
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