Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
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Unknown to her the rigid rule, The dull restraint, the chiding frown The weary torture of the school, The taming of wild nature down.John Greenleaf Whittier
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.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
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One brave deed makes no hero.
John Greenleaf Whittier
The tissue of the Life to be we weave with colors all our own, And in the field of Destiny we reap as we have sown.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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