Katharine Lee Bates Quotes

• O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Beautiful, 4th Of July, Sky

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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• Adversity is the true school of the mind.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  School, Adversity, Mind

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• Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Sweet, Rose, Lovely

  Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”

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• It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Easter, Soul, Hours

  Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”

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• America! America!
  God shed His grace on thee
  And crown thy good with brotherhood
  From sea to shinning sea!

  Katharine Lee Bates

  4th Of July, Sea, America

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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• 0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Beautiful, Dream, Years

  'America the Beautiful' (1893)

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• O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Til all success be nobleness And every gain divine!

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Beautiful, Country, Business

  Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”

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• America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  4th Of July, America, Grace

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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• The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Cities, Shops, Commerce

  Katharine Lee Bates (1907). “From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England”

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