Elizabeth Oakes Smith Quotes

• The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Men, Spheres, Capacity

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith (2015). “The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories”, p.20, Broadview Press

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• How few women have any history after the age of thirty!

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Age, Thirty

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• Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite; the voice of a deep life within, that will remain until we crowd it thence.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Faith, Voice, Deep Life

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• My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Order, Purpose, Realizing

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• Faith is the subtle chain Which binds us to the infinite.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Faith, Infinite, Subtle

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• How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Beautiful, Lonely, Heart

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• Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Europe, Whales, Spain

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• T is the summer prime, when the noiseless air in perfumed chalice lies.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Summer, Lying, Air

  Elizabeth Oakes SMITH, John KEESE (of Newburyport, Mass.) (1843). “The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese”, p.116

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• Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet,
  Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Life, Crowns, Defeat

  Elizabeth Oakes SMITH, John KEESE (of Newburyport, Mass.) (1843). “The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese”, p.163

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• We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Thinking, Safe, Quiet

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• White wing'd angels meet the child
  On the vestibule of life.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Children, Angel, Wings

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• The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Sky, Dew, Scent

  Elizabeth Oakes SMITH, John KEESE (of Newburyport, Mass.) (1843). “The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese”, p.66

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• Tis rushing now adown the spout,
  And gushing out below,
  Half frantic in its joyousness,
  And wild in eager flow.
  The earth is dried and parched with heat,
  And it hath long'd to be
  Released from out the selfish cloud,
  To cool the thirsty tree.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Selfish, Rain, Clouds

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