William C. Bryant Quotes

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• Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Teaching, Sky

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• There is a day of sunny rest
  For every dark and troubled night;
  And grief may hide an evening guest,
  But joy shall come with early light.

  William C. Bryant

  Grief, Dark, Night

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• Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

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• Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.

  William C. Bryant

  Greatness, Nurse, Difficulty

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• Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.

  William C. Bryant

  Beautiful, Earth, Pages

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”

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• The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and anarchy.

  William C. Bryant

  Fall, Political, Liberty

  "The Death of Lovejoy" by William C. Bryant (November 18, 1837), as quoted in William Cullen Bryant II "Power For Sanity: Selected Editorials of William Cullen Bryant, 1829-61" (p. 78), 1994.

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• Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim
  Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,
  And, lost each human trace, surrendering up
  Thine individual being, shalt thou go
  To mix forever with the elements,
  To be a brother to the insensible rock
  And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain
  Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak
  Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mold.

  William C. Bryant

  Death, Brother, Rocks

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Truth crushed to the earth will rise again!

  William C. Bryant

  Earth, Crushed

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

  William C. Bryant

  Positive, Attitude, Winning

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• Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.

  William C. Bryant

  Fall, Autumn, Gold

  "The Third of November". Poem by William C. Bryant (1861), first published in William C. Bryant "Thirty Poems" (pp. 112-115), 1864.

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• The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

  William C. Bryant

  Character, Evil, Office

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• Is not thy home among the flowers?

  William C. Bryant

  Flower, Home, Wind

  William Cullen Bryant, “The West Wind”

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• And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

  William C. Bryant

  Sympathy, Grief, Should Have

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

  William C. Bryant

  Grieving, Promise

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• All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away,
  Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye.

  William C. Bryant

  God, Passing Away, Earth

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Love Of God”

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• The sweet calm sunshine of October, now
  Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold
  The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
  drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Fall, Sunshine

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• Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.

  William C. Bryant

  Tyrants, Yoke, Reign

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”

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• The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Flower, Rose

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• Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

  William C. Bryant

  Mean, Self, Unhappy

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• Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down.

  William C. Bryant

  Sunshine, Sun, Showers

  "Thirty poems". Book by William C. Bryant, poem "The Cloud on the Way", line 18, 1864.

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• The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Moon, Night

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• The groves were God's first temples.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Tree, Firsts

  William Cullen Bryant, Thomas G. Voss (1975). “The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: 1865-1871”, p.49, Fordham Univ Press

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• Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.

  William C. Bryant

  Adversity, Greatness, Rocks

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• Tender pauses speak
  The overflow of gladness,
  When words are all too weak.

  William C. Bryant

  Speak, Weak, Overflow

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• Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues
  That live among the clouds, and flush the air,
  Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews.

  William C. Bryant

  Clouds, Air, Dew

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Walk At Sunset”

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