John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• 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

• 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

• All day the darkness and the cold
  Upon my heart have lain
  Like shadows on the winter sky
  Like frost upon the pane

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Heart, Winter, Sky

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.141

• 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.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Gratitude, Flower, Grateful

• 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.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Brother, Prayer, Heart

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

• 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

• Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Heart, Doctrine, Heresy

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

• Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful. On the other hand, there are faces which the multitude, at first glance, pronounce homely, unattractive and such as "Nature fashions by the gross," which I always recognize with a warm heart-thrill. Not for the world would I have one feature changed; they please me as they are; they are hallowed by kind memories, and are beautiful through their associations.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beautiful, Fashion, Memories

• 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

• And the more you spend in blessing
  The poor and lonely and sad,
  The more of your heart's possessing
  Returns to you glad.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christmas, Lonely, Heart

  Attributed to John Greenleaf Whittier in The Educational Monthly of Canada, Volume 24‎, p. 29, 1901.

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