Quotes of James Whitcomb Riley - somelinesforyou

“ A Parting Guest What delightful hosts are they— Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They have not withheld from me Their high hospitality. So, with face lit with delight And all gratitude, I stay Yet to press their hands and say, Thanks.—So fine a time! Good night. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ He Is Not Dead I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you—oh you, who the wildest yearn For an oldtime step, and the glad return, Think of him faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here. Think of him still as the same. I say, He is not dead—he is just away. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ A Parting Guest What delightful hosts are they— Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They have not withheld from me Their high hospitality. So, with face lit with delight And all gratitude, I stay Yet to press their hands and say, Thanks.—So fine a time! Good night. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ Just a wee cot - the crickets chirr - love and the smiling face of her. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ Say good-bye er howdy-do — What's the odds betwixt the two? Comin' — goin' — every day — Best friends first to go away — Grasp of hands you'd ruther hold Than their weight in solid gold, Slips their grip while greetin' you, — Say good-bye er howdy-do? ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain — Why, rain's my choice. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain-Why, rain's my choice. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ Say good-bye er howdy-do — What's the odds betwixt the two? Comin' — goin' — every day — Best friends first to go away — Grasp of hands you'd ruther hold Than their weight in solid gold, Slips their grip while greetin' you, — Say good-bye er howdy-do? ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence, and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence, and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain-Why, rain's my choice. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain — Why, rain's my choice. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ And he shall reign a goodly king And sway his hand o'er every clime With peace writ on his signet ring, Who bides his time. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ Joy runs to meet him drawing near. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence, and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ The most essential factor is persistence — the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence, and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley
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