255 Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier

Children have neither past nor future – they rejoice in the present.

Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise.

Oh, for boyhood’s painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor’s rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

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

So let it be in God’s own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given, – The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So “Bonnie Doon” but tarry; Blot out the epic’s stately rhyme, But spare his “Highland Mary!”

Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn.

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

Reason’s voice and God’s, Nature’s and Duty’s, never are at odds.