John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Fall, Power

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

• 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”

• 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”

• God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait, Give ermined knaves their hour of crime; Yet have the future grand and great, The safe appeal of Truth to Time!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Dark, Evil

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.201

• Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Time, Epic, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.187

• God gives quietness at last.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Death, Giving, Lasts

• Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Giving, Thanks, Palms

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.247

• The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Fate, Hands, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.75

• 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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