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• For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these
  It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) -- Maud Muller, st. 53...
• For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these
  It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) _Maud Muller_ [1856]...
• REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew.
  The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing....
• And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
  -- John G. Whittier (1807-1892) -- The Chapel of the Hermi...
• Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.
  -- John G. Whittier (1807-1892) -- Snow Bound...
• Making their lives a prayer. -- John G.
  Whittier (1807-1892) -- To A, K, On receiving a Basket of Sea-Mosse...
• Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. -- John G. Riefenbake
• Abandon all hope, ye who exit here.
• John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), _For Righteousness' Sake_ (1855)