Caroline Norton Quotes

• Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

  Caroline Norton

  Children, Famous Inspirational, Joy

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• A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.

  Caroline Norton

  Suffering, Publicity, Facts

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1978). “Selected writings of Caroline Norton: facsimile reproductions”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs.

  Caroline Norton

  Rights, Asks

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• Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.

  Caroline Norton

  Mother, Born, Unmarried

  "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly", November 9, 1870.

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• A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.

  Caroline Norton

  Beautiful, Hope, Children

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1851). “Stuart of Dunleath: a story of modern times”, p.66

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• We have been friends together
  In sunshine and in shade.

  Caroline Norton

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1853). “The Undying One: And Other Poems”, p.209

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• For death and life, in ceaseless strife,
  Beat wild on this world's shore,
  And all our calm is in that balm—
  Not lost but gone before.

  Caroline Norton

  Life And Death, Gone, World

  "Not Lost but Gone Before" (ca. 1850). Burton E. Stevenson, Home Book of Quotations, and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations trace "Not lost, but gone before" and similar expressions to Seneca, St. Cyprian, and Matthew Henry.

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• Until I truly loved, I was alone.

  Caroline Norton

  Love, Loner

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1862). “The Lady of La Garaye”, p.75

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• A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

  Caroline Norton

  Nursing, Soldier, Tears

  "Bingen on the Rhine" l. 1 (1850)

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• Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

  Caroline Norton

  Children, Practice, Abortion

  "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly", November 9, 1870.

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• A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a little child has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value

  Caroline Norton

  Beautiful, Prayer, Children

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1851). “Stuart of Dunleath: a story of the present time”, p.37

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• God made all pleasures innocent.

  Caroline Norton

  Innocent, Pleasure, Made

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1871). “The Lady of La Garaye”, p.34

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• Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

  Caroline Norton

  Poet, Lays, Values

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1859). “Poems”, p.11

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• O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.

  Caroline Norton

  Running, Dream, Twilight

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1841). “The Dream: And Other Poems”, p.4

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• I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.

  Caroline Norton

  Voice, Listening, Heard

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• Oh, there at last, life's trials past, / We'll meet our loved ones more, / Whose feet have trod the path to God, -- / Not lost, but gone before.

  Caroline Norton

  Past, Feet, Lasts

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• They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

  Caroline Norton

  Serving God, Wells, Creatures

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1862). “The Lady of La Garaye”, p.121

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• Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

  Caroline Norton

  Men, Age, Graves

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1840). “The Dream, and Other Poems”, p.236

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