Ella Wheeler Wilcox Short Quotes

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No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The only folks who really wound
Are those we love the best.

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To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

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Time owes me such a heavy debt;
How can he ever make things right?

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

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

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There is new strength, repose of mind and inspiration in fresh apparel.

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And let its meaning permeate
Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.

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Contentment comes when sought,
While Happiness pursued was never caught.

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

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With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

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

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

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There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.
Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

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

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Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.

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When we say of people what we would not say to them, we are either liars or cowards.

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At times I am the mother of the world;
And mine seem all its sorrows, and its fears.

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

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For life is a poem to leisurely read,
And the joy of a journey lies not in its speed.

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Have you heard of the terrible family They,
And the dreadful venomous things They say?

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Oh you who read some song I have sung
What know you of the soul from whence it sprung

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

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I think of death as some delightful journey
That I shall take when all my tasks are done.

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The two kinds of people on earth I mean
Are the people who lift, and the people who lean.

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

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But though that place I never gain,
Herein lies comfort for my pain:
I will be worthy of it.

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Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate.

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