John Greenleaf Whittier, To my Friend on the Death of his Sister.
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With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!
— John Greenleaf Whittier on Affliction
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Source: Wikiquote: "Affliction" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 12.)
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About John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier (17 December 1807 – 7 September 1892) was an American Quaker poet and abolitionist.
About John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier (17 December 1807 – 7 September 1892) was an American Quaker poet and abolitionist.
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