John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• 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

• This is truth the poet sings . . .

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Poet

• From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Creeds

  John Greenleaf WHITTIER (1863). “Home Ballads and Poems”, p.165

• Truth is one;
  And, in all lands beneath the sun,
  Whoso hath eyes to see may see
  The tokens of its unity.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Eye, Land

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

• 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.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Children, Truth, Inquiry

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

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