For somehow, not only at Christmas, but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
No longer forward nor behind, I look in hope or fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
And a nameless longing filled her breast, - A wish, that she hardly dared to own, For something better than she had known. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
Peace hath higher tests of manhood. Than battle ever knew. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
We search the world for truth; We cull the good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said, Is in the Book our mothers read. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
If woman lost us Eden, such as she alone can restore it. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the school, the taming of wild nature down. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
No lance have I, in joust or fight, To splinter in my lady's sight; But, at her feet, how blest were I For any need of hers to die! John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
God gives quietness at last. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
Nothing before, nothing behind; the steps of faith fall on the seeming void and find the rock beneath. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
She blended in a like degree The vixen and the devotee. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
Ah, that I were free again! Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0
An ashen memory in its stead. John Greenleaf Whittier American Writer More John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes 0