John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.
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“Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
“For somehow, not only at Christmas, but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you.”
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”
“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.”
“And a nameless longing filled her breast, - A wish, that she hardly dared to own, For something better than she had known”
“When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.”
“From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.”
“If woman lost us Eden, such as she alone can restore it”
“We give thy natal day to hope, O Country of our love and prayer! Thy way is down no fatal slope, But up to freer sun and air.”
“No longer forward nor behind, I look in hope or fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here.”