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John Greenleaf Whittier byl americký kvakerský básník a abolicionista.

✵ 17. prosinec 1807 – 7. září 1892
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John Greenleaf Whittier citáty a výroky

„Od Miriamina osvobozujícího zpěvu a triumfu u Rudého moře, semitská rasa neměla odvážnějšího zpěváka.“

o Emmě Lazarusové
[(fr) Since Miriam sang of deliverance and triumph by the Red Sea, the Semitic race has had no braver singer.]
Zdroj: [Schor, Esther H., 2006, Emma Lazarus, Nextbook, 242, angličtina]

John Greenleaf Whittier: Citáty anglicky

“Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.”

Mary Garvin, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Who never wins can rarely lose,
Who never climbs as rarely falls.”

To James T. Fields, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Low stir of leaves and dip of oars
And lapsing waves on quiet shores.”

Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The hope of all who suffer,
The dread of all who wrong.”

The Mantle of St. John de Matha, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother;
where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.”

Worship, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“To eat the lotus of the Nile
And drink the poppies of Cathay.”

The Tent on the Beach, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Let the thick curtain fall;
I better know than all
How little I have gained,
How vast the unattained.”

My Triumph, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.”

Mary Garvin, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“When faith is lost, when honor dies
The man is dead!”

Ichabod, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.”

The eternal Goodness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag," she said.”

Barbara Frietchie (1863); reported in Diane Ravitch, The American Reader: words that moved a nation (2000), p. 259. The lines are based on an folkloric account of the real Barbara Fritchie, said to have made a similar challenge to Confederate invaders of Maryland during the American Civil War.

“God is and all is well.”

My Birthday', reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare Browning, Pippa Passes.

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