Top 15 John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

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

The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.

A little smile, a word of cheer,
A bit of love from someone near,
A little gift from one held dear,
Best wishes for the coming year.

These make a merry christmas!

If thou of fortune be bereft,
and in thy store there be but left
two loaves, sell one, and with the
dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks
The careful ways of duty;
Our hard, stiff lines of life with her
Are flowing curves of beauty.

No longer forward or behind
I look in hope or fear,
But grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!

So all night long the storm roared on:
The morning broke without a sun;
In tiny spherule traced with lines
Of Nature’s geometric signs,
In starry flake, and pellicle,
All day the hoary meteor fell;
And, when the second morning shone,
We looked upon a world unknown,
On nothing we could call our own.
Around the glistening wonder bent
The blue walls of the firmament,
No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow!

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

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don’t believe that it’s when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he’s able to do them, and that he does them well.

The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past, — flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.

Nothing before, nothing behind;
The steps of faith
Fall on the seeming void, and find
The Rock beneath.