The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, That all of thee we loved and cherished Has with thy summer roses perished And left, as its young beauty fled, An ashen memory in its stead.John Greenleaf Whittier
For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold Slaves rise up men the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves.
John Greenleaf Whittier
I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Oh, for boyhood's painless play, Sleep that wakes in laughing day, Health that mocks the doctor's rules, Knowledge never learned of schools.
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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