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Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: A poor original is better than a good imitation. A poor original is better than a good imitation.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: The loves of men but vary in degrees They find no new expression for the flame. The loves of men but vary in degrees
They find no new expression for the flame.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: God sent us here to make mistakes God sent us here to make mistakes
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Keep out of the past. It is haunted. Keep out of the past. It is haunted.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: That each sorrow has its purpose, By the sorrowing oft unguessed, But as sure as the sun brings morning, Whatever is-is best. That each sorrow has its purpose, By the sorrowing oft unguessed, But as sure as the sun brings morning, Whatever is-is best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will. Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean. The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Always continue to climb. Always continue to climb.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan. I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent, or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent, or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Life is a garden forever in flower. Life is a garden forever in flower.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long. We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: No fate could rob us of our ownNo circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess. No fate could rob us of our own
No circumstance can make it less;
What time removes was but a loan,
For what was ours we still possess.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep. This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last. Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Trust in your own untried capacity. Trust in your own untried capacity.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow. The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place ... I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart. Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: It stands in the light transfigured, It speaks from the heights above, "Each Soul Is Its Own Redeemer; There Is No Law But Love." It stands in the light transfigured, It speaks from the heights above, "Each Soul Is Its Own Redeemer; There Is No Law But Love."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Content is not the pathway to great deeds. Content is not the pathway to great deeds.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith. The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: All roads that lead to God are good. All roads that lead to God are good.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under. And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Life is too short for aught but high endeavor. Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: All the past is not worth one today. All the past is not worth one today.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger. Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.Slow is the ascent by the path of Love. There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.
Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite. Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Change is the watchword of progression. Change is the watchword of progression.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true ... Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: There is no language that love does not speak. There is no language that love does not speak.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Before night something beautiful will happen to change everything. Before night something beautiful will happen to change everything.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion. It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great. Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.
Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.
Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living. We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it. Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know ... The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs. So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust ... Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother. Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair. Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod. Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: To be able to enjoy heaven, one must learn first to enjoy earth. To be able to enjoy heaven, one must learn first to enjoy earth.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Whatever is ... is best. Whatever is ... is best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, "Remember Night!" High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, "Remember Night!"
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes. Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt. Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go. One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: No one will grieve because your lips are dumb. No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Talk happiness. The world is sad enough Without your woe. No path is wholly rough. Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
Without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Let us clear a little space, And make Love a burial-place. He is dead, dear, as you see, And he wearies you and me. Let us clear a little space, And make Love a burial-place. He is dead, dear, as you see, And he wearies you and me.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it. Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend? I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend?
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Say you are well, or all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true. Say you are well, or all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: The art of being kind is all the world needs. The art of being kind is all the world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate. Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playingWill change for you soon to a livelier strain. Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing
Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: And let its meaning permeateWhatever comes, This too shall pass away. And let its meaning permeate
Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives the world more light. Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives the world more light.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Love moves the world along. Love moves the world along.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: No path is wholly rough. No path is wholly rough.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way ... Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after. This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Good music is wine turned to sound Good music is wine turned to sound
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: There is nothing ridiculous in love. There is nothing ridiculous in love.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Talk not of the river or lake To those who have looked on the sea. Talk not of the river or lake To those who have looked on the sea.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Cry and you'll cry alone, Laugh and the world will laugh with you. Cry and you'll cry alone, Laugh and the world will laugh with you.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Time is the best avenger. Time is the best avenger.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost. Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair ... Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no man can help you die Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no man can help you die
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears. And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men. To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see. With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: For every hour of pain I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content. For every hour of pain I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: How happy they are, in all seeming, How gay, or how smilingly proud, How brightly their faces are beaming, These people who make up the crowd! How happy they are, in all seeming, How gay, or how smilingly proud, How brightly their faces are beaming, These people who make up the crowd!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind ... Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe ... Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow. The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder. There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill. Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: But though that place I never gain,Herein lies comfort for my pain:I will be worthy of it. But though that place I never gain,
Herein lies comfort for my pain:
I will be worthy of it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: No question is ever settled until it is settled right. No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain. There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes: Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes. Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

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