Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Day Quotes

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A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.

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Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.

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Oh, dark, inevitable and awful day,
When one of us must go and one must stay!

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As the dead year is clasped by a dead December,
So let your dead sins with your dead days lie.

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For every hour of pain I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content.

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

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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.

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Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way....

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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."

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We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

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The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer,
The headstones thicken along the way;
And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger
For those who walk with us day by day.

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I happened one night in my travels To stray into Butterfly Vale, Where my wondering eyes beheld butterflies With wings that were wide as a sail They lived in such houses of grandeur, Their days were successions of joys And the very last fad these butterflies had Was making collections of boys.

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