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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 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 These Flemish pictures of old days; Sit with me by the homestead hearth,... Quote Right
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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 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 Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight, Through present wrong the eternal right; And, step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man... Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs