John Greenleaf Whittier famous quotes

07-16-2025

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Inspirational #Heart #Opportunity
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Love #Inspirational #Life
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.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Fall #Flower #Power
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Life #Patience #Peace
One brave deed makes no hero.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Sports #Hero #Brave
Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Dream #Flower #Winter
Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Wells #Behinds
Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Dark #Night #Light
The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Prayer #Heart #Simple
Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ...
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Weak #Let Me
The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Flower #Fall #Autumn
A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Christmas #Cheer #Years
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Romance #Beard #Tradition
the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Famous Inspirational #Giving #Joy
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Inspirational #Leadership #Conscience
I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Together
Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Fall #Clouds #Sunbeams
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Fashion #Ebb And Flow #Cities
No cloud above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Stars #Clouds #Air
All day the darkness and the cold Upon my heart have lain Like shadows on the winter sky Like frost upon the pane
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Heart #Winter #Sky
God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Eye #Blind #Providence
From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Truth #Creeds
The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Death #Art #Hands
Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#School #Sleep #Doctors
The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for us as men and Christians.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Christian #Animal #Men

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