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Zielri1: “Success is failure turned inside out, the silver tint of the clouds of doubt”
-Don’t Quit
John Greenleaf Whittier
amirhimself: "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been'" - Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier.
MikesJokesEtc: For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, It might have been. -John Greenleaf Whittier
nevadapossum: When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,
And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before,
What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie?
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
clairemaryr: Don’t Quit - John Greenleaf Whittier. Rest if you must! Day 35!
si_npg: John Greenleaf Whittier, George Kendall Warren
falcicchio: The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell just how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit
This poem is in the public domain
John Greenleaf Whittier
kiing90s: Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
-John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller - Pamphlet
abstractexpre55: "A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!" ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
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vlknack: Quote of the day: As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. - John Greenleaf Whittier
MisterReusch: January 2021 will be 10 years I’ve been a caretaker of the John Greenleaf Whittier Birthplace. This 86-page squarebound collection of my photos & paintings is headed off to the printers this week & I’ll post pre-order info once I receive a printed proof:
chikuwa100q_bot: 99. You don't always win/ your battles, but it's good to know you fought. [John Greenleaf Whittier]
abstractexpre55: "A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!" ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
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MelanieJaxn: We better love the hardy gift
Our rugged vales bestow,
To cheer us when the storm shall drift
Our harvest-fields with snow.
-John Greenleaf Whittier
LDSBread: “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’”
-John Greenleaf Whittier
anglicanreader: Drop thy still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease; take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace. Breathe through the heats of our desire. O still, small voice of calm.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92)
benedictrajan27: Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!- John Greenleaf Whittier
Noclots: Some food for thought:
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been." - John Greenleaf Whittier
chikuwa100q_bot: 99. You don't always win/ your battles, but it's good to know you fought. [John Greenleaf Whittier]
chikuwa100q_bot: 99. You don't always win/ your battles, but it's good to know you fought. [John Greenleaf Whittier]
Edourdoo: Among Pennsylvania Germans, for example, Zimmermann became Carpenter and Rittinghuysen was changed to Rittenhouse.
Paul Revere's surname reflects a change from the French Rivoire while John Greenleaf Whittier's mother's family had originally been called Feuillevert.
insurance_board: “No longer forward or behind
I look in hope or fear,
But grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier
WHAVRadio: Podcast: John Greenleaf Whittier School to Feed Thanksgiving Dinners to 150 Families
kiing90s: Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
-John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller - Pamphlet
kiing90s: Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
-John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller - Pamphlet
kiing90s: Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
-John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller - Pamphlet
6002Infinity: Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint on the clouds of doubt,
And you can never tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things go wrong that you mustn't quit.”
-John Greenleaf Whittier
chikuwa100q_bot: 99. You don't always win/ your battles, but it's good to know you fought. [John Greenleaf Whittier]
MelanieJaxn: Ah! on Thanksgiving day....
When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,
And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.
What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?
~John Greenleaf Whittier
kelsywelsss: •The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you. 〰 John Greenleaf Whittier•
✨Joy Ornament will be dropping this Saturday, 11/21 at 12 PM EST!
DelightingInGod: I know not where his islands lift
There fronded palms in air,
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond his love and care.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
thryvdemo: The vibrant colors of fall are infinitely inspiring. As the aptly named poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote, “The tints of autumn … [are] a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.”
chikuwa100q_bot: 19. For all sad words of tongue and pen/ the saddest are those 'It might have been.' [John Greenleaf Whittier]
DelightingInGod: For he whose eyes the Lord anoints
His tender love may see,
In radiant hill and woodland dim,
And tinted sunset see;
For not in mockery does He fill
Our earth with light and grace,
He hides no dark and cruel will
Behind His smiling face.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
chikuwa100q_bot: 19. For all sad words of tongue and pen/ the saddest are those 'It might have been.' [John Greenleaf Whittier]
highonfiction_: You never can tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems so far
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seems worst that you must not quit.
~John Greenleaf Whittier
EagleEdMartin: Don't Quit by John Greenleaf Whittier
chikuwa100q_bot: 99. You don't always win/ your battles, but it's good to know you fought. [John Greenleaf Whittier]
amindinwinter: “The tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.”—John Greenleaf Whittier
chikuwa100q_bot: 19. For all sad words of tongue and pen/ the saddest are those 'It might have been.' [John Greenleaf Whittier]
CSLCHSnMore: That is from John Greenleaf Whittier.
Roy_Wallen: For all sad words of tongue and pen
The saddest are these, “It might have been.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
benbrookjohn: The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, POET
chikuwa100q_bot: 19. For all sad words of tongue and pen/ the saddest are those 'It might have been.' [John Greenleaf Whittier]
DelightingInGod: The healing of Thy seamless robe,
Is by our beds of pain.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
MelanieJaxn: And ere the early bedtime came
The white drift piled the window-frame,
And through the glass the clothes-line posts
Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts.
-John Greenleaf Whittier
Anoudsal7: A life lesson in a poem written by
- john greenleaf whittier
FireBreathnChkn: Looking Out from the John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge
irfa6n: To-day alike are great and small,
The nameless and the known
My palace is the people's hall,
The ballot-box my throne!
-John Greenleaf Whittier
ElijahSchaffer: BLM protestors vandalized a statue of John Greenleaf in Whittier, CA
A prominent Quaker abolitionist
Known for his anti-slavery writings
MikesJokesEtc: All the windows of my heart I open to the day. -John Greenleaf Whittier
Rejenag: "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."
John Greenleaf Whittier
RLaurenRiley: “Folly and Fear are sisters twain:
One closing her eyes,
The other peopling the dark inane
With spectral lies.”
— John Greenleaf Whittier
bkglennon: John Greenleaf Whittier--fitting for today's GOP
Of all we loved and honored, naught
Save power remains;
A fallen angel's pride of thought,
Still strong in chains.
All else is gone; from those great eyes
The soul has fled:
When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man is dead!
vabattlestrust: “Still, in the cannon's pause, we hear
Nature’s sweet thanksgiving psalm...”
(Excerpt from The Battle of Autumn 1862 by John Greenleaf Whittier)
MelanieJaxn: "Once more the liberal year laughs out
O'er richer stores than gems or gold:
Once more with harvest song and shout
Is nature's boldest triumph told."
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
rosmary1741: The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Surazeus: Burning Drift-Wood
John Greenleaf Whittier
Take with you, on your Sea of Dreams,
The fair, fond fancies dear to youth.
I turn from all that only seems,
And seek the sober grounds of truth.
techguybeneck: Quote of the day: "Of all sad words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been." - John Greenleaf Whittier
Doc_RPS: Every time I vote. Every single time.
"The wide world has not wealth to buy/
The power in my right hand."
--"The Poor Voter on Election Day" by John Greenleaf Whittier
(and yes, I'm left-handed.)
NorthAndoverXC: October 27, 2019, the girls were runner ups to a loaded Billerica girls team. For this 2020 team, as Haverhill's John Greenleaf Whittier once wrote, "the saddest words of tongue and pen, are these, it might have been."
DanRather: A poem for this day, and likely many days ahead. “Don't Quit” by John Greenleaf Whittier.
chikuwa100q_bot: 19. For all sad words of tongue and pen/ the saddest are those 'It might have been.' [John Greenleaf Whittier]
SuperQuotes15: For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, It might have been. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
ArsEstHabitus: The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
John Greenleaf Whittier
chikuwa100q_bot: 99. You don't always win/ your battles, but it's good to know you fought. [John Greenleaf Whittier]
FayJones1966: "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"
-John Greenleaf Whittier
HoughSheldonDDS: “The windows of my soul I throw wide open to the sun.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
Aprillustreid: “For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’'
John Greenleaf Whittier,
MARIBETH JONES
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NADINE LUSTRE
sdymanagers: "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"
-John Greenleaf Whittier.
davidledum: “For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been.’ ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Some decisions are taken out of fear, some from curiosity and others from believe/hope but in all, decisions are life changing.
fraveris: The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
~ Image by Chris Lazzery
naqvi327: Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint on the clouds if doubt;
And you can never tell how close you are;
It maybe near when it seems far.
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit-
Its when things go wrong that you must not Quit. “
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
ssvikings: John Greenleaf Whittier
ssvikings: The Song Of The Vermonters - Kyle Stevens, John "Greenleaf" Whittier, Et...
ssvikings: "At Port Royal" by John Greenleaf Whittier
L0VE_speaks: “Don’t Quit” by John Greenleaf Whittier
CynthiaMAuthor: Excerpt from The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier 1844, "Oh, fruit loved of boyhood! The old days recalling, when wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling! When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, glaring out through the dark with a candle within!
chikuwa100q_bot: 19. For all sad words of tongue and pen/ the saddest are those 'It might have been.' [John Greenleaf Whittier]
arunakoya: For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
~John Greenleaf Whittier
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
~Marcus Aurelius
ii_meyer: Literally just talking about him and the Marais des Caignes massacre—tied to the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. I’ve visited the site
anj_116_: By John Greenleaf Whittier, The Poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier: A Reader's Edition
MelanieJaxn: Oh, fruit loved of boyhood! the old days recalling,
When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling!
When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin,
Glaring out through the dark with a candle within!
-John Greenleaf Whittier
StellaTesori: “All the windows of my heart I open to the day.”
~John Greenleaf Whittier
anglicanreader: Drop thy still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease; take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace. Breathe through the heats of our desire. O still, small voice of calm.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92)
BadmintonBenef1: Drop thy still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease; take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace. Breathe through the heats of our desire. O still, small voice of calm.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92)
mccamms68: "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."
John Greenleaf Whittier
212AutoNews: As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier
MelanieJaxn: And, darkly circled, gave at noon
A sadder light than waning moon.
Slow tracing down the thickening sky
Its mute and ominous prophecy...
-John Greenleaf Whittier
SaraMR__: A life lesson in a poem written by
- john greenleaf whittier
SambhavChopra: “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been.”
-John Greenleaf Whittier
beyourhome: As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. - John Greenleaf Whittier
gregowalogist: From John Greenleaf Whittier's "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind":
rjmrrt: "God pity them both, and pity us all,
Who vainly the dreams of youth recall.
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been."
--John Greenleaf Whittier
pseudo_naam: “For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been"
- John Greenleaf Whittier
LOONYOSWORLDSG: Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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GaryLoper: As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
celverston: John Greenleaf Whittier
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these—it might have been.” Don’t let this be the epitaph of our United States—VOTE!!!
Ambreen86026045: “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
MelanieJaxn: The mug of cider simmered slow,
The apples sputtered in a row,
And, close at hand, the basket stood
With nuts from brown October's wood.
~John Greenleaf Whittier
