Quotes from Phoebe Cary

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

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.

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

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

All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today

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

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.

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.

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

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.

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

"…true love is never blind, but rather brings an added light."

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

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

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

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

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.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

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