Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
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Source: Home Ballads and Poems
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems
“Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.”
Source: Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Despair is infidelity and death.”
Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.”
Source: The Journal of John Woolman
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.”
Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“A felon's cell-- The fittest earthly type of hell!”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies
“The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!”
Source: Poems
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies
“Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present.”
“Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck, And hear a cry from a reeling deck!”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier
Source: Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier
Source: The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier: 1828-1845
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”
“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.”
“All the windows of my heart I open to the day.”
Source: Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier
“I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.”
“Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems
“Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.”
Source: Narrative and Legendary Poems: Barclay of Ury, and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier