Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

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One of us two must sometime face existence
Alone with memories that but sharpen pain.
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One of us two shall find all life, all beauty,
All joy on earth, a tale forever done;
Shall know henceforth that life means only duty.
O God! O God! have pity on that one!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Change is the watchword of progression. When
We tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new.
This restless craving in the souls of men
Spurs them to climb, and seek the mountain view.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The rankling wound which aches and thrills
Is dealt by hands we love.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I fling my past behind me like a rose,
Worn threadbare in the seams, and out of date.
I have outgrown it.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There is no balking Genius. Only death
Can silence it — or hinder.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing
Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
'Tis a curious fact that a generous act
Brings leisure and luck to a day.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Passion is what the sun feels for the earth
When harvests ripen into golden birth.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
'Tis the set of sails and not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There are ghosts in the room. As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there They come out of the gloom, And they stand at my side and they lean on my chair...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
And lo! The beautiful Opal, That rare and wondrous gem, Where the moon and sun blend into one, Is the child that was born to them.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men know By her said mien, and eyes forever wet. No heart would seek her; but once having met All take her by the hand, and to and fro They wander through those paths of long ago-- Those hallowed ways 'twere wiser to forget.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide. On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight, But back on the incoming waves it may ride And land at your threshold again before night. Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such a fate, For that is my conception of hell-fire.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Since Sirius crossed the Milky Way Full sixty thousand years have gone, Yet hour by hour and day by day This tireless star speeds on and on.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
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
Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend... "The world is better that I lived to-day."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox