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Phoebe Cary Quotes
1.
I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.
Phoebe Cary

2.
Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.
Phoebe Cary

3.
You may wear your virtues as a crown, As you walk through life serenely, And grace your simple rustic gown With a beauty more than queenly. Though only one for you shall care, One only speak your praises; And you never wear in your shining hair, A richer flower than daisies.
Phoebe Cary

4.
All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today
Phoebe Cary

5.
And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip.
Phoebe Cary

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6.
Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build
Phoebe Cary

7.
And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!
Phoebe Cary

8.
Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!
Phoebe Cary

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9.
Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage.
Phoebe Cary

10.
Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest.
Phoebe Cary

11.
There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.
Phoebe Cary

12.
Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing Life's inequalities, and woe, and care, The burdens laid upon our mortal being Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.
Phoebe Cary

13.
Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.
Phoebe Cary

14.
Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.
Phoebe Cary

15.
For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make; We bring our precious gifts to them, Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.
Phoebe Cary

16.
I think true love is never blind, / But rather brings an added light; / An inner vision quick to find / The beauties hid from common sight.
Phoebe Cary

17.
Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of one, / That one they wouldn't print?
Phoebe Cary

18.
One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.
Phoebe Cary

19.
O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.
Phoebe Cary

20.
For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in.
Phoebe Cary

21.
For those roses bright, oh, those roses bright! I have twined them in my sister's locks That are hid in the dust from sight.
Phoebe Cary

22.
Do we call the star lost that is hidden / In the great light of morn?
Phoebe Cary

23.
But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false and fickle day / That looked so fair at waking!
Phoebe Cary

24.
Laugh out, O stream, from your bed of green, / Where you lie in the sun's embrace; / And talk to the reeds that o'er you lean / To touch your dimpled face.
Phoebe Cary

25.
Father, perfect my trust;Let my spirit feel in death,That her feet are firmly setOn the rock of a living faith!
Phoebe Cary

26.
But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.
Phoebe Cary

27.
O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.
Phoebe Cary