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Letter "J" » John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes
«Peace hath higher tests of manhood.Than battle ever knew.»
«Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.»
«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»
«When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.»
«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
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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.»
«Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago»
«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.»
«We meet todayTo thank Thee for the era done,And Thee for the opening one»
«Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.»
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