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Alice Cary Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

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Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.



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Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.



He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.



Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!





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