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• For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Roots, Battle

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.153

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• As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Inspirational, Leadership, Greater

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• The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Hope, Soul, Earnest

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1854). “Literary recreations and miscellanies”, p.368

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• There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.

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  Done, Strive, Duty

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.115

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• What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Thanksgiving, Food, Eye

  1844 'The Pumpkin,' stanza 3.

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• With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

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  Angel, Silence, Dumb

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

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• Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Stress, Soul

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.180, tredition

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• This is truth the poet sings . . .

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Poet

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• From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Creeds

  John Greenleaf WHITTIER (1863). “Home Ballads and Poems”, p.165

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• He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Fear, Wind, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Grave By The Lake”

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• The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for us as men and Christians.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christian, Animal, Men

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• A faint blush melting through the light of thy transparent cheek like a rose-leaf bathed in dew.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Light, Rose, Dew

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• A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  True Life, Example, Life Is

  John Woolman, John Greenleaf Whittier (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.44, Boston : J.R. Osgood

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• With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight,
  From Life's glad morning to its solemn night;
  Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show
  There's light above me by the shade I throw.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Morning, Night, Light

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• When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars, His fame, who led the stormy van Of battle, well may cease; But never that which crowns the man Whose victory was peace.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Dream, War, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.411

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• Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board The old broken links of affection restored, When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?

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  Girl, Mother, Eye

  1844 'The Pumpkin,' stanza 3.

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• The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in Beauty's midnight hair, In lonelier grace, to sun and dew The sweetbrier on the hillside shows Its single leaf and fainter hue, Untrained and wildly free, yet still a sister rose!

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  Fashion, Garden, Clouds

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.21

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• Romance is always young.

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  Romance, Young

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.202

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• What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

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  Admiration, Kind, Looking Good

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1845). “The Stranger in Lowell”, p.113

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• Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

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  Romance, Beard, Tradition

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Narrative and Legendary Poems: Barclay of Ury, and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier”, p.62, tredition

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• Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.

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  Spring, Flower, Curves

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier”, p.207, tredition

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• The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings.

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  Swings, Green, Tents

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.290

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• Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease; Sing the song of great joy that the angels began, Sing the glory to God and of good-will to man!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christmas, Song, Angel

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.393

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• Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Wind, Sea, Sky

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.246, tredition

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• Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Heart, Doctrine, Heresy

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.203

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