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"17 John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 17 December 1807. Died: 7 September 1892 | Poet |
Rest if you must, but never quit.
Rest Never Quit
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But dream not helm and harness The sign of valor true; Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.

Dream Valor Peace Battle
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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Business Person Lverage Truth
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Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.

Blossom Duty Life Beauty
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The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

Joy Give Comes back You
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The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun

Windows Soul Wide open Sun
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For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!

Words Sad Tongue Pen
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I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together

Lift You Me Ascend
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And still we love the evil cause And of the just effect complain; We tread upon life's broken laws And murmur at our self-inflicted pain.

Love Life's Law Pain
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Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all His works, Has left His hope with all!

Starlight God Works Hope
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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

Book Thought MusicHearts
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One brave deed makes no hero.

Brave Deed Hero
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Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

Before Behind God
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The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.

Simple heart Freely Asks Love
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Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Tradition Romance Young
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God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.

God's Blind Eyes
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From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds

Death Life Truth Creeds
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John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes & Sayings