John Greenleaf Whittier Famous Quotes



"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been'"

"The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been."

"No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here."

"In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them."


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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J Boorstin

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Greg Evans

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
Ovid

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.
Roy E Moody

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine

"How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself"
La Rochefoucauld

He who receives a benefit should never forget it he who bestow should never remember it.
Pierre Charron