I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done. Alice Cary More Quotes by Alice Cary More Quotes From Alice Cary There's nothing so kingly as kindness, Alice Cary royal kindness Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side? Alice Cary wall garden grief Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment. Alice Cary life-is helping men Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring. Alice Cary autumn spring book How many lives we live in one, Alice Cary philosophy life art The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes. Alice Cary burden done dream 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 light sight song 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 hours house heaven Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness. Alice Cary bears world son He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can. Alice Cary fellow-man love men The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now! Alice Cary grace calling path Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall. Alice Cary sunbeams winter fall 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. Alice Cary missing helping happiness I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me. Alice Cary maple drifting gum We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love. Alice Cary The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible. Alice Cary splits action way There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; Alice Cary broken war heaven Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single. Alice Cary crowds soul men For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth. Alice Cary birth honest noble With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done. Alice Cary work heart men
