Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes

• 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 Days

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.107

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• No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

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  Inspirational, Stars, Motivation

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• Dreams grow holy put in action.

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  Dream, Adelaide, Holiness

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.111

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• 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.

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  Time, Fall, Moments

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and lyrics: a book of verses”, p.28

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• Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one
  Have limits to its mercy; God has none.

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  Heart, Limits, Kind

  Adelaide Anne Procter, Varla Ventura (2012). “The Ghost in the Picture Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection”, p.16, Weiser Books

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• See how time makes all grief decay.

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  Time, Grief, Decay

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.218

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• One by one bright gifts from heaven
  Joys are sent thee here below;
  Take them readily when given,
  Ready, too, to let them go.

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  Joy, Heaven, Given

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and lyrics: a book of verses”, p.28

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• I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.

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  Inspirational, Sweet, Poison

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106

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• 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.

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  Life, Joy, Sorrow

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.76

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• 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.

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  Angel, Men, Light

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.155

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• Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'

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  Grief, Heart, Passing Away

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and lyrics: a book of verses”, p.26

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• Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

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  Dream, Flow, Action

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.111

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• Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

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  Pain, Long, Sorrow

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.21

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• 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

  "A Legend of Provence" l. 284 (1861)

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• 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.

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  Time, Broken, Heaven

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.21

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• Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.

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  Spring, Rain, Fall

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• 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!

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  Strong, Stars, Heart

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.77

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• 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.

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  Echoes, Keys, One Day

  "A Lost Chord" l. 1 (1858)

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• Each man has some part to play.

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  Men, Play, Acting

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.61

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• The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

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  Horse, Men, Thinking

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• I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

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  Adelaide, May, Lord

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106

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• Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

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  Ideas, Noble, Strife

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.15

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