John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes - Page 1

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Romance is always young.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Beauty is its own excuse.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

God's colors all are fast.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

God gives quietness at last.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

The smile of God is victory.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

The child must teach the man.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

One brave deed makes no hero.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Man is more than constitutions.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Despair is infidelity and death.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Rest if you must, but never quit.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

The still, sad music of humanity.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

This is truth the poet sings . . .

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Simple duty hath no place for fear.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm!

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Small leisure have the poor for grief.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

A felon's cell-- The fittest earthly type of hell!

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

If woman lost us Eden, such As she alone restore it.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Others may sing the song. Others may right the wrong.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Thee lift me, and I lift thee, and together we ascend.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

No cloud above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.

• John Greenleaf Whittier / Poet

Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls