Alice Cary Quotes

#1. Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?

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#2. He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can ...

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#3. True worth is being not seeming

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#4. The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

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#5. How many lives we live in one,
And how much less than one, in all.

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#6. There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance;
else noise of wars would unmake heaven.

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#7. Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

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#8. Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

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#9. Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.

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#10. I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.

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#11. Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold.

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#12. Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

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#13. I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.

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#14. The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!

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#15. True worth is in being, not seeming

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#16. The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.

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#17. There's nothing so kingly as kindness,
And nothing so royal as truth.

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#18. Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.

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#19. We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.

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#20. For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

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#21. We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

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#22. I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

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#23. There are briers besetting every path,
Which call for patient care;
There is a cross in every lot,
And an earnest need for prayer;
But a lowly heart that leans on Thee
Is happy anywhere

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#24. Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!

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#25. My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

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