"Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous……" — John Greenleaf Whittier
"Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find."
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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
— Luis Bunuel
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Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to…
— Conan O'Brien
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until…
— Swami Vivekananda
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As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable…
— Stuart Chase
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality,…
— Seneca the Younger
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No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.
— Menachem Begin
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Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial…
— Anwar Sadat
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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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We should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still…
— Lidia Yusupova
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