"I know not which I love the most,……" — Phoebe Cary
"I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head."
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Phoebe Cary
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12 Quotes by Phoebe Cary
Phoebe Cary has 12 quotes on this site.
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And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip.
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But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave…
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Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.
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Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.
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One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been…
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O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary…
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Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build
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All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today
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For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make; We bring our precious gifts to them, Even for the…
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There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good…
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Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.
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More Bashful Quotes
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A bunch of six nicer people, I couldn’t be more fortunate to call my family — from Lee Pace, who…
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about…
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I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have…
— Jean Arthur
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I don't mean to be bashful, but I was
— Willie Mays
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Miss Child is never bashful with butter.
— Phil Donahue
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Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting,…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull,…
— Margaret Cavendish
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I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's…
— Danica Patrick
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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was,…
— Tim Cahill
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I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a…
— William Cowper
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When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while,…
— Aaron Hill
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