Caroline Norton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?
-- Caroline Norton

#Children #Famous Inspirational #Joy
We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton

#Friendship #School #Sunshine
Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.
-- Caroline Norton

#Poet #Values
I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.
-- Caroline Norton

#Voice #Listening #Heard
Perhaps there will come a time when... an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood... and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.
-- Caroline Norton

#Mother #Motherhood #Born
A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thoughtÂ—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.
-- Caroline Norton

#Beautiful #Hope #Children
A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a little child has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value
-- Caroline Norton

#Beautiful #Prayer #Children
For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balmâ€” Not lost but gone before.
-- Caroline Norton

#Life And Death #Gone #World
They serve God well, who serve his creatures.
-- Caroline Norton

#Serving God #Wells #Creatures
A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.
-- Caroline Norton

#Nursing #Soldier #Tears
Until I truly loved, I was alone.
-- Caroline Norton

#Loner
Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?
-- Caroline Norton

#Children #Practice #Abortion
Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.
-- Caroline Norton

#Men #Age #Graves
O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.
-- Caroline Norton

#Running #Dream #Twilight

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