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Bargains Quote by Alice Cary

“We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them…” quote by Alice Cary — Download Open image

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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