Quotes of Adelaide Anne Procter - somelinesforyou

“ Our Beasts and our Thieves and our Chattels Have weight for good or for ill; But the Poor are only His image, His presence, His word, His will; And so Lazarus lies at our doorstep And Dives neglects him still. ”

- Adelaide Anne Procter

“ No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been Since Good, though only thought, Has life and breath God's life can always be redeemed from death. And evil in its nature is decay, And any hour may blot it all away. The hope that lost in some far distance seems, May be the truer life, and this the dream. ”

- Adelaide Anne Procter

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

- Adelaide Anne Procter

“ Through the black night and driving rain A ship is struggling, all in vain, To live upon the stormy main; — Miserere Domine! ”

- Adelaide Anne Procter
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