John Greenleaf Whittier - From the Beauty category:
Beauty seen is never lost, / God's colors all are fast. (John Greenleaf Whittier)
John Greenleaf Whittier - From the Books category:
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. (John Greenleaf Whittier)
John Greenleaf Whittier - From the Destiny category:
The tissue of life to be we weave with colors all our own, / And in the field of destiny we reap as we have sown. (John Greenleaf Whittier)
John Greenleaf Whittier - From the Hope category:
No longer forward nor behind / I look in hope and fear; / But grateful take the good I find, /
The best of now and here. (John Greenleaf Whittier)
John Greenleaf Whittier - From the Problems category:
You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought. (John Greenleaf Whittier)
John Greenleaf Whittier - From the Renewal category:
From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds. (John Greenleaf Whittier)
John Greenleaf Whittier - From the Sadness category:
For all sad words of tongue and pen, / The saddest are these, 'It might have been.' (John Greenleaf Whittier)
John Greenleaf Whittier - From the Windows category:
All the windows of my heart I open to the day. (John Greenleaf Whittier)
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