John Greenleaf Whittier
Poet
1807-12-17
Books by John Greenleaf Whittier
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Poems
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
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Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
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the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
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So all night long the storm roared on:The morning broke without a sun;In tiny spherule traced with linesOf 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 bentThe blue walls of the firmament,No cloud above, no earth below,— A universe of sky and snow!
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Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
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So all night long the storm roared on:The morning broke without a sun;In tiny spherule traced with linesOf 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 bentThe blue walls of the firmament,No cloud above, no earth below,— A universe of sky and snow!
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the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
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Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
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Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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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.
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Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
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All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
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I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight.
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God gives quietness at last.
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There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.
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The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, but find the rock beneath.
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I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
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God is and all is well.
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In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight ... Not people die but worlds die in them.
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The still, sad music of humanity.
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Arise, why look behind, When Hope is all before?
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