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Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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John Greenleaf Whittier
Age: 84 †
Born: 1807
Born: December 17
Died: 1892
Died: September 7
Journalist
Lawyer
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
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Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
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Simple duty hath no place for fear.
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O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!
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Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!
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Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.
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The child must teach the man.
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Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.
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Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.
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Rest if you must, but never quit.
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Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads To the pervading symphony of Peace.
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I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
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