Caroline Sheridan Norton

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    “My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by,
    With thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye!”
    —Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808–1877)

    “I have eyes to see now what I have never seen before.”
    —Anonymous, U.S. correspondence student. As quoted in The Life of Ellen H. Richards, ch. 9, by Caroline L. Hunt, quoting Ellen Swallow Richards (1912)

    “I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”
    —Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

    “Every cloud must have a silver lining.”
    —George A. Norton (1880–1923)