John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes about Heart

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All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Inspirational, Heart, Opportunity

John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.83, tredition

The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Prayer, Heart, Simple

John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.185

All day the darkness and the cold Upon my heart have lain Like shadows on the winter sky Like frost upon the pane

John Greenleaf Whittier

Heart, Winter, Sky

John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.141

Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Heart, Doctrine, Heresy

John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.203

O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Brother, Prayer, Heart

John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.124

Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what is it but an intellectual abstraction, after all? The heart feels a beauty of another kind; looking through the outward environment, it discovers a deeper and more real love-liness.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Beauty, Real, Heart

John Greenleaf Whittier (1866). “Literary recreations and miscellanies”, p.366