"The Fates are just: they give us but……" — John Greenleaf Whittier
"The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown."
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that…
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
— Francis Bacon
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in…
— Honore de Balzac
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind…
— John Adams
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your…
— John Adams
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I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his…
— Alfred Adler
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time…
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