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“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!”
Source: Maud Muller
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
“The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun.”
Source: John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection
“Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.”
“The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.”
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“Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“One brave deed makes no hero.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Small leisure have the poor for grief.”
Source: Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl
“Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls”
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
“Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.”
Source: Poems 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
Source: Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems
“Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.”
“And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“The smile of God is victory.”
Source: Poems by John G. Whittier
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“The child must teach the man.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies
“Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform
“No cloud above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.”
Source: Home Ballads and Poems
Source: Old portraits and modern sketches
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier