Caroline Norton Quotes

#1. They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

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#2. God made all pleasures innocent.

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#3. I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.

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#4. We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.

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#5. I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs.

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#6. Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned ... Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

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#7. Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

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#8. A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

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#9. O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.

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#10. Oh, there at last, life's trials past, / We'll meet our loved ones more, / Whose feet have trod the path to God,
/ Not lost, but gone before.

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#11. For death and life, in ceaseless strife,
Beat wild on this world's shore,
And all our calm is in that balm
Not lost but gone before.

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#12. A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.

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#13. Until I truly loved, I was alone.

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#14. Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

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#15. Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

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#16. Perhaps there will come a time when ... an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood ... and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.

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