John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes About Giving
-
The Present, the Present is all thou hast For thy sure possessing; Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast Till it gives its blessing.
→ -
the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
→ -
The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.
→ -
He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.
→ -
God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait, Give ermined knaves their hour of crime; Yet have the future grand and great, The safe appeal of Truth to Time!
→ -
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
→ -
Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm!
→ -
God gives quietness at last.
→ -
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"
→
Related Authors
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist -
Sarah Orne Jewett Novelist -
Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet -
Charles Ives Composer -
Matthew Arnold Poet -
Washington Irving Author -
Robert Burns Poet -
James Russell Lowell Poet -
Rebecca Harding Davis Author -
William Lloyd Garrison Journalist -
William Dean Howells Author -
Harriet Beecher Stowe Author -
Carl Maria von Weber Composer -
-
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Physician -
Theodore Dwight Weld Writer -
Henry David Thoreau Author -
Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelist -
Robert Penn Warren Poet -
William C. Bryant Poet