Adelaide Anne Procter famous quotes

03-24-2025

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Night #Light #Perfect
Dreams grow holy put in action.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Dream #Action #Holy
Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Grief #Heart #Passing Away
Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Pain #Long #Sorrow
Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Heart #Limits #Kind
Each man has some part to play.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Men #Play #Acting
One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Time #Fall #Moments
I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#May #Lord #Pleasant
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Ideas #Noble #Strife
Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Angel #Men #Sky
Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earthâ€™s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charmâ€™d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Spring #Rain #Fall
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Stars #Regret #Wings
Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Life #Joy #Sorrow
No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Stars #Motivation #May
I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Sweet #Poison #Wells
See how time makes all grief decay.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Time #Grief #Decay
The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ***** begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Horse #Thinking #Men
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Echoes #Keys #One Day
Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright, The stars can only shine In the dark night. Be strong, O Heart of mine, Look towards the light!
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Strong #Stars #Heart
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Dream #Flow #Action
Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Time #Broken #Heaven

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