Graedon Greenleaf Quotes

#1. Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!" #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#2. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of
the need to assuage an unusual power drive. #Quote by Robert Greenleaf

#3. Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#4. The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,
flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#5. Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#6. What, my soul, was thy errand here?
Was it mirth or ease,
Or heaping up dust from year to year?
"Nay, none of these!"
Speak, soul, aright in His holy sight,
Whose eye looks still
And steadily on thee through the night;
"To do His will! #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#7. The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good! #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#8. So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore! #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#9. All day the darkness and the cold
Upon my heart have lain
Like shadows on the winter sky
Like frost upon the pane #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#10. The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for us as men and Christians. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#11. The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#12. Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#13. What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#14. swallowed by another noise: an indistinct thudder. #Quote by Alena Graedon

#15. With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb! #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#16. Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#17. Behind the cloud the starlight lurks,
Through showers the sunbeams fall;
For God, who loveth all His works,
Has left His hope with all! #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#18. When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#19. With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#20. The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#21. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#22. As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#23. Beauty is its own excuse. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#24. Like warp and woof all destinies
Are woven fast,
Linked in sympathy like the keys
Of an organ vast.
Pluck one thread, and the web ye mar;
Break but one
Of a thousand keys, and the paining jar
Through all will run. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#25. Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#26. The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work. #Quote by Robert K. Greenleaf

#27. learned only later what I'd seen: the manufacture of a term that would be used to increase traffic on the Word Exchange. For some users of the Meme - those whose devices had been infected with a new virus that had recently started circulating - terms like this one would replace "obscure" words - "cynical," "morbid," "integrity" - that those of us who'd grown dependent on our Memes no longer fully trusted to our memories. But I knew nothing then about these neologisms, or the virus, or why this "word" had just been fabricated. #Quote by Alena Graedon

#28. The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries. #Quote by Simon Greenleaf

#29. 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. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#30. We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#31. Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#32. Nature speaks in symbols and in signs. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#33. We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#34. The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#35. With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight,
From Life's glad morning to its solemn night;
Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show
There's light above me by the shade I throw. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#36. When I made some observation about linguistic affinity and heredity and Freud - so obvious, I worried that I sounded like a philistine - Ana gave a startled, gargled laugh. Her already enormous eyes grew even wider. And I was immediately engulfed in a warm, prickly compunction. #Quote by Alena Graedon

#37. 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! #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#38. And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain! #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#39. On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker. #Quote by Robert K. Greenleaf

#40. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#41. The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#42. And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong! #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#43. The child must teach the man. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#44. Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#45. God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed. #Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

#46. After Ian left for the Greenleaf Inn, where he planned to stop for the night before continuing the trip to his own home, Elizabeth stayed downstairs to put out the candles and tidy up the drawing room. In one of the guest chambers above, Jordan glanced at his wife's faint, preoccupied smile and suppressed a knowing grin. "Now what do you think of the Marquess of Kensington?" he asked.
Her eyes were shining as she lifted them to his. "I think," she softly said, "that unless he does something dreadful, I'm prepared to believe he could truly be your cousin."
"Thank you, darling," Jordan replied tenderly, paraphrasing Ian's words. "I'm happy to see your opinion of him is already improving. #Quote by Judith McNaught

#47. (A man who traffics in words, I thought, should come up with better ones than that.) The note felt toxic; it left a funny taste in my mouth. Metallic, like lead paint, or the prodrome of a migraine. When had he written it? And why? Maybe someone else had done it for him. While I'd had my back turned, had he just been pretending to write? Everything about it made me ill. And then there was what the note said. What #Quote by Alena Graedon

#48. but I could feel the jealous eyes of the steexin hangers-on still in line, and I lament to report that it boosted my spirits some), he #Quote by Alena Graedon