Whittier

Famous quotes containing the word whittier:

    “How dwarfed against his manliness
    She sees the poor pretension,
    The wants, the aims, the follies, born
    Of fashion and convention!”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “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 (1807–1892)

    ““Who touches a hair of yon gray head
    Dies like a dog! March on!” he said”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)