50 ordspråk av John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier föddes den December 17th 1807 och dog den 7 September 1892 - US writer
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 God gives quietness at last |
| God's colors all are fast. |
| Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. |
| His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good |
| How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention! |
| I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together. |
| If woman lost us Eden, such as she alone can restore it |
| It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. |
| It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. |
| 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. |
| 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! |
| No longer forward nor behind, I look in hope or fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here. |
| Nothing before, nothing behind; the steps of faith fall on the seeming void and find the rock beneath |
| 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! |
| Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. |
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