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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“Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the school, the taming of wild nature down.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
“No lance have I, in joust or fight, To splinter in my lady's sight; But, at her feet, how blest were I For any need of hers to die!”
“His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good”
“God gives quietness at last”
“Nothing before, nothing behind; the steps of faith fall on the seeming void and find the rock beneath”
“The smile of God is victory.”
“God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed”
“She blended in a like degree The vixen and the devotee”
“It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.”
“Ah, that I were free again! Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay”