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20 Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Quotes

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton offers lyrical, wistful reflections on love, hope and fleeting beauty.

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton quotes

  1. We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade. Since first beneath the chestnut-tree In fancy we played But coldness dwells within thine heart A cloud is on thy brow. We have been friends together,- Shall a light word part us now?

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

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  3. Love not! love not! ye hopeless sons of clay; Hope's gayest wreaths are made of earthly flowers- Things that are made to fade and fall away, Ere they have blossomed for a few short hours.

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  4. A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers; There was lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears.

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  5. Too innocent for coquetry, too fond for idle scorning- Oh friend, I fear the lightest heart makes sometimes heaviest mourning.

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

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  7. 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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  8. 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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  1. Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

  2. They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

  3. 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.

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

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

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

  7. A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.

  8. 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.

  9. Until I truly loved, I was alone.

  10. 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?

  11. God made all pleasures innocent.

  12. A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a little child has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value