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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power let fortune's bubbles rise and fall who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Age: 84 †
Born: 1807
Born: December 17
Died: 1892
Died: September 7
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For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold Slaves rise up men the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!
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Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.
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A felon's cell-- The fittest earthly type of hell!
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We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our Future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade.
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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.
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Bathsheba! to whom none ever said scat- No worthier cat Ever sat on a mat, Or caught a rat. Requiescat!
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It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic Thou shalt not of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth.
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A charmed life old goodness hath the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.
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Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn
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Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present.
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And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
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Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.
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All day the darkness and the cold Upon my heart have lain Like shadows on the winter sky Like frost upon the pane
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From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.
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Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness.
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Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.
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Despair is infidelity and death.
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