Katharine Lee Bates quotes
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“O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain....”
-- Katharine Lee BatesSource : "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)
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“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
-- Katharine Lee BatesSource : Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”
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“The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.”
-- Katharine Lee BatesSource : Katharine Lee Bates (1907). “From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England”
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“It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.”
-- Katharine Lee BatesSource : Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”
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“America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!”
-- Katharine Lee BatesSource : "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)
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“O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Til all success be nobleness And every gain divine!”
-- Katharine Lee BatesSource : Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”
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“America! America! God shed His grace on thee.”
-- Katharine Lee BatesSource : "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)
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“Adversity is the true school of the mind.”
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“0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!”
-- Katharine Lee BatesSource : 'America the Beautiful' (1893)
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“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”
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“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
Source : Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.
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“Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”
Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.113, UPNE
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