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• What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Important

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1854). “Literary recreations and miscellanies”, p.164

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• There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Nature, Men, Calm

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• And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Time, Men, Gains

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier”, p.102, tredition

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• Thee lift me, and I lift thee, and together we ascend.

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  Together, Thee, Lifts

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• O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!

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  Love, Winter, Hair

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288

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• And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Song, Sweet, Stars

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.213, tredition

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• The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

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  Hope, Suffering, Dread

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.315

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

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  Heart, Winter, Sky

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

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• If woman lost us Eden, such As she alone restore it.

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  Women, Eden, Lost

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.330

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• I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Islands, Air

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.319

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• The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Wine, Mountain, Cups

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Worship Of Nature”

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• Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Dark, Night, Light

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.122

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• We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Master's footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise! - A life that stands as all true lives have stood Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Prayer, Children

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.90, tredition

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• The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, "Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs."

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  Father, Reality, America

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1888). “Old portraits and modern sketches”

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• God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Eye, Blind, Providence

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.351

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• God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed.

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  Needs, Deeds, Gaps

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.57, tredition

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• Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Faith, Fall, Rocks

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.139, tredition

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• Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

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  Flower, Garden, Tree

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.249

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• The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Death, Art, Hands

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.37, tredition

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• The child must teach the man.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Wisdom, Children, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.391

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• The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Fall, Autumn

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches”, p.336, tredition

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• For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Roots, Battle

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.153

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• As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Inspirational, Leadership, Greater

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• The smile of God is victory.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Smile, Victory

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1850). “Poems by John G. Whittier”, p.198

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• Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Stress, Soul

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.180, tredition

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