20 Quotes by John Whittier

Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the school, the taming of wild nature down.

Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,/ But spare your country's flag,' she said./ A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,/ Over the face of the leader came.

She blended in a like degree The vixen and the devotee

Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.

Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.

Nothing before, nothing behind; the steps of faith fall on the seeming void and find the rock beneath

But, by all thy nature's weakness, Hidden faults and follies known, Be thou, in rebuking evil, Conscious of thine own.

If woman lost us Eden, such as she alone can restore it

We meet todayTo thank Thee for the era done,And Thee for the opening one