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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 For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!' Quote Right
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Quote Left And the song she was singing ever since In my ear sounds on:—... Quote Right
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Quote Left These Flemish pictures of old days; Sit with me by the homestead hearth,... Quote Right
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Quote Left In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them. Quote Right
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Quote Left How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention! Quote Right
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