John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes - Page 5

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• Life's sunniest hours are not without
  The shadow of some lingering doubt--
  Amid its brightest joys will steal
  Spectres of evil yet to feel--
  Its warmest love is blent with fears,
  Its confidence a trembling one--
  Its smile--the harbinger of tears--
  Its hope--the change of April's sun!
  A weary lot--in mercy given,
  To fit the chastened soul for heaven.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love Is, Evil, Joy

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• Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Speak, Symbols

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.199

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• 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

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• Simple duty hath no place for fear.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Simple, Duty

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.313

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• Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Morning, Blessing

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.170, tredition

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• Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Voice, Odds, Reason

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.199, tredition

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• Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  God, Men, Lord

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.318

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• So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Light, Hair, Gone

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.146

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• Around the mighty master came
  The marvels which his pencil wrought,
  Those miracles of power whose fame
  Is wide as human thought.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Art, Miracle, Fame

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

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• 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

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• A felon's cell--
  The fittest earthly type of hell!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Cells, Felons, Prison

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.100

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• 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.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beautiful, Passion, Evil

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• It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Persuasion, Crisis

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier”, p.405, tredition

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• So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below,— A universe of sky and snow!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Morning, Wall, Night

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.87, tredition

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• Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Sunshine, Woods

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.22, tredition

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• Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck,
  And hear a cry from a reeling deck!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, Wrecks, Waking

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.226

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• Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Wisdom, Children, Past

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• Time is hastening on, and we
  What our fathers are shall be,--
  Shadow-shapes of memory!
  Joined to that vast multitude
  Where the great are but the good.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Time, Memories, Father

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.174

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• The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Revenge, Fate, Destiny

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1894). “The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier: Life and letters”

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• What, my soul, was thy errand here?
  Was it mirth or ease,
  Or heaping up dust from year to year?
  "Nay, none of these!"
  Speak, soul, aright in His holy sight,
  Whose eye looks still
  And steadily on thee through the night;
  "To do His will!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Eye, Night, Sight

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.93

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• Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Nature, Flower, Eden

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• Man is more than constitutions.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Constitution

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• A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  May, Goodness, Grain

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.99

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• Like warp and woof all destinies
  Are woven fast,
  Linked in sympathy like the keys
  Of an organ vast.
  Pluck one thread, and the web ye mar;
  Break but one
  Of a thousand keys, and the paining jar
  Through all will run.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Running, Destiny, Keys

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.94

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• Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads To the pervading symphony of Peace.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Peace, Flower

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