Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Quotes

• Every day is a fresh beginning; Listen my soul, to the glad refrain, And in spite of old sorrow… and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again.

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  Pain, Heart, Soul

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• Every day is a fresh beginning. Every morn is the world made anew.

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  New Beginnings, Recovery, Addiction

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• Men die but sorrow never dies.

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  Men, Sorrow, Dies

  "The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey". Poem by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, www.bartleby.com. 1902.

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• Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

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  Flower, Night, Rose

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• Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!

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  Easter, Three, Earth

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• Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.

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  Forgiveness, Done, Innocence

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• True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object.

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  Selfish, Love Is, Objects

  Susan Coolidge, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (2015). “Clover: 4th volume of the "Katy" series.”, p.132, Mondial

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• Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover.

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  Errors, Yesterday

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• Now the last red ray is gone;
  Now the twilight shadows hie.

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  Twilight, Shadow, Rays

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• In the deep shadow of the porch
  A slender bind-weed springs,
  And climbs, like airy acrobat,
  The trellises, and swings
  And dances in the golden sun
  In fairy loops and rings.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Weed, Spring, Swings

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• As we meet and touch, each day, The many travelers on our way, Let every such brief contact be A glorious, helpful minister.

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  Ministry, Each Day, Way

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• We ring the bells and we raise the strain
  We hang up garlands everywhere
  And bid the tapers twinkle fair,
  And feast and frolic - and then we go
  Back to the same old lives again.

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  Christmas, Bells, Garlands

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• Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows her own, and is content.

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  Song, Laughter, Flower

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• ... And God, who studies each separate soul,
  
  out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.

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  Beautiful, Soul, Religion

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• Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet,
  Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,
  And golden locks in breezy play,
  Half teasing and half tender, to repeat
  Her song of May.

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  Song, Sweet, Spring

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• The sobbing wind is fierce and strong; its cry is like a human wail.

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  Strong, Wind, Fierce

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• Dry leaves upon the wall, Which flap like rustling wings and seek escape, A single frosted cluster on the grape Still hangs--and that is all.

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  Wall, Wings, Dry

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• So, just for one more merry day To the great Tree the leaflets clung, Frolicked and danced and had their way, Upon the autumn breezes swung.

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  Autumn, Tree, Way

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, “How The Leaves Came Down”

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• Ah, the pretty whisperers! It was very well When the leaves were thick and green, awhile ago-- Leaves are secret-keepers; but since the last leaf fell There is nothing hidden from the eyes below.

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  Eye, Secret, Green

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• All green and fair the summer lies, Just budded from the bud of spring, With tender blue of wistful skies, And winds that softly sing.

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  Summer, Spring, Lying

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• The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!

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  Best Love, Autumn, Lovers

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• Softly drops the crimson sun: Softly down from overhead, Drop the bell-notes, one by one, Melting in the melting red.

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  Melting, Bells, Red

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• ...this pause of rest, This morning hush before the sun.

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  Morning, Sun, Hush

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• To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy, as she dropped asleep that night. How often we all do so! And what a pity it is that when morning comes and to-morrow is to-day, we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently; careless or impatient, and not a bit inclined to do the fine things we planned overnight.

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  Morning, Night, Feelings

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