John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes - Page 4

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• With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Mother, Dream, Song

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier”, p.120, tredition

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• Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

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  Heart, Doctrine, Heresy

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

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• Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.

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  Long Ago, Long, Today

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.144

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• Beauty is its own excuse.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beauty, Excuse

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.112

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• The Present, the Present is all thou hast
  For thy sure possessing;
  Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast
  Till it gives its blessing.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Angel, Blessing, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.94

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• A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses.

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  Gratitude, Flower, Grateful

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• 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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  Peaceful, Kind, Bloodshed

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.98

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• Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Laughter, Angel, Hatred

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.122

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• Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Autumn, Winter, Snow

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.144

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• Along the river's summer walk,
  The withered tufts of asters nod;
  And trembles on its arid stalk
  the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Summer, Journey, July

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.208

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• The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Past, Echoes, History

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.221

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• For still in mutual sufferance lies
  The secret of true living;
  Love scarce is love that never knows
  The sweetness of forgiving.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Forgiveness, Lying, Secret

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.331

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• From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Children, World, Fields

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.237, tredition

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• Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Fall, Littles, Curtains

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.102, tredition

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• One brave deed makes no hero.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sports, Military, Hero

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.194

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• Bathsheba! to whom none ever said scat- No worthier cat Ever sat on a mat, Or caught a rat. Requiescat!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Cat, Rats, Caught

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• Truth is one;
  And, in all lands beneath the sun,
  Whoso hath eyes to see may see
  The tokens of its unity.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Eye, Land

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.342

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• O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

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  Brother, Prayer, Heart

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.124

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• Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Meekness

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.94

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• Others may sing the song. Others may right the wrong.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Song, May

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• If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

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  Two, Soul, Hyacinths

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “If Thou Of Fortune Be Bereft”

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• Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.

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  Weak, Resolution, Let Me

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.282

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• The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.

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  Flower, Past, Offering

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1845). “The Stranger in Lowell”, p.145

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• The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Lying, Home, Greece

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.162

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• Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what is it but an intellectual abstraction, after all? The heart feels a beauty of another kind; looking through the outward environment, it discovers a deeper and more real love-liness.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beauty, Real, Heart

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1866). “Literary recreations and miscellanies”, p.366

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