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Adelaide Anne Procter

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Dreams grow holy put in action.


— Adelaide Anne Procter


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


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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.


— Adelaide Anne Procter


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No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.


— Adelaide Anne Procter


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Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.


— Adelaide Anne Procter


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The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.


— Adelaide Anne Procter


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We always may be what we might have been.


— Adelaide Anne Procter


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" While several men showed interest in her Procter never married. She was silent – who would hear her pleading?
Men and beasts were housed – but Adelaide Anne Procter must stay
Houseless in the great and pitiless city
Till the dawning of the winter day. A voracious reader Procter was largely self-taught; Adelaide Anne Procter did however study at Queen's College in Harley Street in 1850.

Procter's literary career began when Adelaide Anne Procter was a teenager; her poems were primarily publiAdelaide Anne Procterd in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round and later publiAdelaide Anne Procterd in book form. Procter was the favourite poet of Queen Victoria. She worked on behalf of a number of causes most prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals.

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