Alice Cary Quotes

Alice Cary provides poetic, hopeful reflections on perception, fear, and the power of imagination.

13 quotes

1. My soul is full of whispered song,- My blindness is my sight; The shadows that I feared so long Are full of life and light.

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

3. True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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?

13. 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.