John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

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• For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christmas, Famous Inspirational, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “Somehow not only for Christmas”

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• All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Inspirational, Heart, Opportunity

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.83, tredition

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• Rest if you must, but never quit.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Inspirational Sports, Never Quit, Inspirational Athlete

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• I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Together, Lifts

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• Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  God, Storm, Mazes

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.166, tredition

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• No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

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  Thankful, Fear, Grateful

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.82, tredition

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• Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Patience, Peace

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.194

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• Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

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  Flower, Fall, Power

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.131, tredition

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• Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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  Children, Truth, Inquiry

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1854). “Literary recreations and miscellanies”, p.272

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• Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  God, Wells, Behinds

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.372

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• We shape ourselves the joy or fear
  Of which the coming life is made,
  And fill our Future's atmosphere
  With sunshine or with shade.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sunshine, Joy, Atmosphere

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.131

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• So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,-- The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.

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  Strength, Strong, Fighting

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.57

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• A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christmas, Cheer, Years

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• At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don’t believe that it’s when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he’s able to do them, and that he does them well.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Believe, Men, Monsters

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• We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

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  Beautiful, Mother, Flower

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

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• The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Might, Saddest, Pens

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• Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Prayer, Spirit, Chains

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• Somewhat of goodness, something true
  From sun and spirit shining through
  All faiths, all worlds, as through the dark
  Of ocean shines the lighthouse spark,
  Attests the presence everywhere
  Of love and providential care.

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  Ocean, Dark, Shining

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.346

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• Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

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  Fall, Clouds, Sunbeams

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.109

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• Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls

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  Success, Fall, Winning

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.246

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• Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Father, Dear Lord, Forgiving

  1872 'The Brewing of Soma'.

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• Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Dream, Flower, Winter

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.371

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• His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

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  Prayer, Headstone, Doing Good

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

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• The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Prayer, Heart, Simple

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.185

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