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John Greenleaf Whittier

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An American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.. American poet


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Quote Left Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. Quote Right
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Quote Left Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been. Quote Right
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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Quote Left The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been. Quote Right
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Quote Left For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!' Quote Right
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Book: Reflection on the Important Things