William C. Bryant Quotes

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• Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Teaching, Sky

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

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• There is a day of sunny rest
  For every dark and troubled night;
  And grief may hide an evening guest,
  But joy shall come with early light.

  William C. Bryant

  Grief, Dark, Night

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• Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.

  William C. Bryant

  Greatness, Nurse, Difficulty

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• The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and anarchy.

  William C. Bryant

  Fall, Political, Liberty

  "The Death of Lovejoy" by William C. Bryant (November 18, 1837), as quoted in William Cullen Bryant II "Power For Sanity: Selected Editorials of William Cullen Bryant, 1829-61" (p. 78), 1994.

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• Truth crushed to the earth will rise again!

  William C. Bryant

  Earth, Crushed

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.

  William C. Bryant

  Beautiful, Earth, Pages

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”

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• Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.

  William C. Bryant

  Fall, Autumn, Gold

  "The Third of November". Poem by William C. Bryant (1861), first published in William C. Bryant "Thirty Poems" (pp. 112-115), 1864.

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• Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

  William C. Bryant

  Positive, Attitude, Winning

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• I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

  William C. Bryant

  Grieving, Promise

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• Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

  William C. Bryant

  Mean, Self, Unhappy

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• The groves were God's first temples.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Tree, Firsts

  William Cullen Bryant, Thomas G. Voss (1975). “The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: 1865-1871”, p.49, Fordham Univ Press

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• The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

  William C. Bryant

  Character, Evil, Office

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• And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

  William C. Bryant

  Sympathy, Grief, Should Have

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down.

  William C. Bryant

  Sunshine, Sun, Showers

  "Thirty poems". Book by William C. Bryant, poem "The Cloud on the Way", line 18, 1864.

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• Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.

  William C. Bryant

  Tyrants, Yoke, Reign

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”

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• The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Flower, Rose

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• The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Moon, Night

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• Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.

  William C. Bryant

  Adversity, Greatness, Rocks

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• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

  William C. Bryant

  Strength, Children, Adversity

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• Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues
  That live among the clouds, and flush the air,
  Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews.

  William C. Bryant

  Clouds, Air, Dew

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Walk At Sunset”

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• The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies.

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  Clouds, Wind, Sky

  William Cullen Bryant, “March”

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• Tender pauses speak
  The overflow of gladness,
  When words are all too weak.

  William C. Bryant

  Speak, Weak, Overflow

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• To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

  William C. Bryant

  Love, Language, Speak

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago,
  And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
  But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
  And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,
  Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,
  And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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