33 Quotes by Alice Cary

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

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

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

True worth is in being, not seeming

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

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

Desolate--Life is so dreary and desolate-- Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single, Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan-- Holding and having its brief exultation-- Making its lonesome and low lamentation-- Fighting its terrible conflicts alone.

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

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.