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John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

«Peace hath higher tests of manhood.Than battle ever knew.»

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (Writer) | Keywords: tests

«Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.»

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (Writer) | Keywords: boyhood, mocks, painless, The Doctor, wakes

«We search the world for truth; We cull the good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said, Is in the Book our mothers read»

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (Writer) | Keywords: cull, culled, lade, laded, laden, lading, quest, sages, seekers

«When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.»

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (Writer) | About: Faith

«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.»

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (Writer) | Keywords: bubbles, flower power, knaves, plants, power plant, sows, trains

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

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (Writer) | Keywords: creeds, proceeds

«Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago»

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (Writer) | Keywords: falsehoods, long ago, spurn, spurned

«They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.»

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (Writer) | Keywords: ashen, cherished, fled, perished, stead

«We meet todayTo thank Thee for the era done,And Thee for the opening one»

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (Writer) | About: New Year | Keywords: era, opening

«Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.»