255 Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier

We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our Future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade.

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

The Present, the Present is all thou hast For thy sure possessing; Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast Till it gives its blessing.

The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.

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

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

A bending staff I would not break, A feeble faith I would not shake, Nor even rashly pluck away The error which some truth may stay, Whose loss might leave the soul without A shield against the shafts of doubt.

Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.