Caroline Anne Southey quotes

“How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.”
-- Caroline Anne Southey

Source : Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.178

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“Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season.”
-- Caroline Anne Southey

Source : Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.238

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“After long absence, of return / To my dear home - Oh, happiness! / To lie in blissful consciousness / Of all around: The picture there - / The books - the flower-glass filled with care / By a kind hand - And then to know, / 'Twas but to rise, and meet below / Such a heart's welcome!”
-- Caroline Anne Southey

Source : Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.267

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“Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.”

“Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”

“For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain”

Source : Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”

“They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.”

“Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.”

“There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.”

“The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.”

Source : Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.192, Vintage

“All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.”

“For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.”

“I'm just a down-to-earth guy.”