Alice Cary Quotes

Alice Cary was an American poet, and the older sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary .

✵ 26. April 1820 – 12. February 1871
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Famous Alice Cary Quotes

“My soul is full of whispered song,—
My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
Are full of life and light.”

Alice Cary

"Dying Hymn", in Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns (1866) p. 326.

“How many lives we live in one,
And how much less than one, in all.”

Alice Cary

Life's Mysteries; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 442.

“Yea, when mortality dissolves,
 Shall I not meet thine hour unawed?
My house eternal in the heavens
 Is lighted by the smile of God!”

Alice Cary

"Reconciled" in A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: with some of their later poems (1875) edited by Mary Clemmer Ames, p. 182.

“We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.”

Alice Cary

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 129.

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