"The still, sad music of humanity." — John Greenleaf Whittier
"The still, sad music of humanity."
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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 the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go…
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
— Isaac Asimov
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
— Francis of Assisi
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all…
— Nancy Astor
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We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves…
— David Attenborough
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My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and…
— Lee Atwater
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the…
— Irving Babbitt
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against…
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