255 Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier

Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.

I walk with bare, hushed feet the groundYe tread with boldness shod;I dare not fix with mete and boundThe love and power of God...I know not where his islands liftTheir fronded palms in the air;I only know I cannot driftBeyond his love and care.

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty;Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.

Rest if you must, but never quit.

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

It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth.

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.

Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.