--- title: "1 Shining Isle Quotes By Mary C. Ames" description: "1 Shining Isle quotes by Mary C. Ames. Plus more from Mary C. Ames and more Shining Isle sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39c/mary-c-ames-36303_bland_a-shining-isle-in-a-stormy-sea-we-seek-i_2515963.jpg" --- > [A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/a-shining-isle-in-a-stormy-sea-we-seek-it-ever-with-smiles-and-sighs/) [Mary C. Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-ames/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39c/mary-c-ames-36303_bland_a-shining-isle-in-a-stormy-sea-we-seek-i_2515963.jpg) ## More by Mary C. Ames > [What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/what-more-degrades-woman-today-than-that-she-so-often-seeks-marriage/) [Mary C. Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-ames/) > [The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/the-woman-born-to-physical-subjection-and-degradation-can-never-seek/) [Mary C. Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-ames/) > [Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/always-man-needs-woman-for-his-friend-he-needs-her-clearer-vision-her/) [Mary C. Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-ames/) > [I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/i-lay-my-tasks-down-one-by-one-i-sit-in-the-silence-of-twilight-grace/) [Mary C. Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-ames/) > [The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/the-man-born-and-bred-a-slave-even-if-freed-never-loses-wholly-the/) [Mary C. Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-ames/) > [Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/only-a-newspaper-quick-read-quick-lost-who-sums-the-treasure-that-it/) [Mary C. Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-ames/) > [Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/today-the-manliest-man-would-be-ashamed-to-look-into-the-eyes-of-the/) [Mary C. Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-ames/) > [What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/what-is-love-at-first-sight-but-a-proof-of-the-powerful-but-silent/) [Mary C. Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-ames/) > [To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/to-serve-thy-generation-this-thy-fate-written-in-water-swiftly-fades/) [Mary C. Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-ames/) > [A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/a-shining-isle-in-a-stormy-sea-we-seek-it-ever-with-smiles-and-sighs/) [Mary C. Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-ames/) > [The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/the-indian-summer-the-dead-summer-s-soul/) [Mary C. Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-ames/) > [Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of every day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/most-people-carry-an-ideal-man-and-woman-in-their-head-and-when-the/) [Mary C. Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-ames/) > [The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/the-deepest-insult-which-can-be-shown-to-a-human-being-is-to/) [Mary C. Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-ames/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shining-isle/mary-c-ames/#itemlist", "name": "1 Shining Isle Quotes By Mary C. Ames", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mary C. 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