All Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
“So all night long the storm roared on:”
“Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,But spare your country's flag," she said.”
“The windows of my soul I throwWide open to the sun.”
“What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,—generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.”
“O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother;where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.”
“Press bravely onward! — not in vain Your peaceful zeal shall find.”
“So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawnFor evermore!”
“When faith is lost, when honor diesThe man is dead!”
“Making their lives a prayer.”
“Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time,But spare his "Highland Mary!"”
“Perish with him the folly that seeks through evil good.”
“For of all sad words of tongue or pen,”
“The hope of all who suffer,The dread of all who wrong.”
“I know not where His islands liftBeyond His love and care.”
“Again the shadow moveth o'erThe dial-plate of time.”
“Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight,I see the steady gain of man;”
“We lack but open eye and earYon maple wood the burning bush.”
“Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.”
“Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.”
“The Night is Mother of the Day,The greenest mosses cling.”
“God blesses still the generous thought,He quickens into deeds.”
“Each crisis brings its word and deed.”
“The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.”
“We seemed to see our flag unfurled,The Armageddon of the race.”
“Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.”
“Who never wins can rarely lose,Who never climbs as rarely falls.”
“To eat the lotus of the NileAnd drink the poppies of Cathay.”
“The harp at Nature's advent strungHas never died away.”
“Falsehoods which we spurn to-dayWere the truths of long ago.”
“Low stir of leaves and dip of oarsAnd lapsing waves on quiet shores.”
“All hearts confess the saints elect,The Christian pearl of charity!”
“Life is ever lord of DeathAnd Love can never lose its own.”
“Let the thick curtain fall;How vast the unattained.”
“Sweeter than any sungAnd all I fail of win.”
“God is and all is well.”
“Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.”
“Their right(colored Americans), like that of their white fellow-citizens, dates back to the dread arbitrament of war. Their bones whiten every stricken field of the Revolution; their feet tracked with blood the snows of Jersey; their toil built up every fortification south of the Potomac; they shared the famine and nakedness of Valley Forge, and the pestilential horrors of the old Jersey prison ship.”
“The laws of changeless justice bindWe march to fate abreast.”
“Maud Muller, on a summer's day, Of simple beauty and rustic health.”
“So, closing his heart, the Judge rode on, When he hummed in court an old love-tune.”
“He wedded a wife of richest dower, Looked out in their innocent surprise.”
“A manly form at her side she saw, Saying only, "It might have been".”
“Weary lawyers with endless tongues.”
“Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"”
“For they the mind of Christ discernWho lean, like John, upon His breast.”
“Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.”
“You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.”
“When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.”
“The windows of my soul I throw”
“Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.”