255 Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier

Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find.

Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck, And hear a cry from a reeling deck!

Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’

There is religion in everything around us, – a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.

And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October’s wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October’s wood.

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!

Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven’s warm sunshine in.

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