Adelaide Anne Procter

“Dreams grow holy put in action.”

“Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”

“Rise! for the day is passing, And you lie dreaming on; The others have buckled their armor, And forth to the fight are gone.”

“One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall.”

“Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night.”

“Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, And my fingers wandered idly Over the noisy keys.”

“We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.”

“Let us be content to work, to do the thing we can, and not presume to fret because it's little.”

“For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our todays and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.”

“I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be A pleasant road.”

“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.”

“One by one thy duties wait thee, Let thy whole strength go to each.”

“For life is incomplete, and hope a striving and a sigh.”

“Give me a purpose to live for, and I will be a hero.”

“Our trust is not in mortal hosts, nor in the rampart's battered strength; in God we trust.”

“The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and played.”

“There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.”

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