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I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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John Greenleaf Whittier
Age: 84 †
Born: 1807
Born: December 17
Died: 1892
Died: September 7
Journalist
Lawyer
Poet
Writer
Haverhill
Massachusetts
Known
Dimly
Blessings
Blessing
Guess
Sight
Greater

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The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.
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Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.
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Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm!
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The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!
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Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.
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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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God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.
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Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.
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Thee lift me, and I lift thee, and together we ascend.
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No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.
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This is truth the poet sings . . .
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What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite?
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God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.
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Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.
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