Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier

The cravens fear is but selfishness like his merriment.

Shoot if you must this old gray head But spare your countrys flag she said.

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear But grateful take the good I find The best of now and here.

Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.

Yet in the maddening maze of things And tossed by storm and flood To one fixed trust my spirit clings I know that God is good!

Before me even as behind God is and all is well.

Im sorry that I spelld the word I hate to go above you Because - the brown eyes lower fell - Because you see I love you!

Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.

The simple heart that freely asks in love obtains.

For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

We search the world for truth we cull The good the pure the beautiful From all old flower fields of the soul And weary seekers of the best We come back laden from our quest To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear but grateful take the good I find the best of now and here.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: It might have been!

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, It might have been.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.