Better Dead Quotes by Alice Cary

There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.

— Alice Cary

My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

— Alice Cary

True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of great things…

— Alice Cary

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

— Alice Cary

The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.

— Alice Cary

True worth is in being, not seeming

— Alice Cary

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

— Alice Cary

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

— Alice Cary

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

— Alice Cary

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

— Alice Cary

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

— Alice Cary

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

— Alice Cary