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

Alice Cary

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Alice Cary
Age: 50 †
Born: 1820
Born: April 26
Died: 1871
Died: February 12
Author
Novelist
Poet
Suffragist
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Alice Cary
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The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place / Oh, not to-day not now!
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The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.
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How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.
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We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.
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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.
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My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sightThe shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.
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I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.
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Every life is meant to help all lives each man should live for all men's betterment.
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With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.
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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.
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Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!
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True worth is in being, not seeming
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Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.
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I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.
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The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.
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For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.
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Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.
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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.
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Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.
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