John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes about Past

All John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes Age Art Autumn Beauty Children Christmas Duty Evil Faith Fashion Giving God Gold Goodness Heart Humanity Inspirational Joy Life Love Lying Memories Morning Nature Past quotes Prayer Romance Silence Sleep Soul Summer Sunshine Time Truth War Winter

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Past, Echoes, History

John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.221

The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Flower, Past, Offering

John Greenleaf Whittier (1845). “The Stranger in Lowell”, p.145