Alice Cary Professions : Poet Born : April 26, 1820 Died : February 12, 1871 Browse All Authors Top 26 quotes by Alice Cary I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done. Alice Cary done work men Desolate--Life is so dreary and desolate-- Alice Cary fighting soul men True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth. Alice Cary dream kindness men Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold. Alice Cary saint gold thinking True worth is in being, not seeming Alice Cary true-worth seeming I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men. Alice Cary christian love men Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors