"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."

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Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.176

Alice Cary

#Happiness Quotes #Missing Quotes #Helping Quotes

“I love audiences. My God, the best friends in the world!”
“I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.”
“In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.”
“A lot of times I talk to people, they say they don't trust the doctors, they don't trust the hospitals and that kind of stuff. Well, if you go to the hospital, you've got to trust somebody.”
“The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.”
“The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.”

Source : Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.103, Simon and Schuster
“In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.”
“Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.”

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