20 Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Quotes

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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