Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes - Page 9

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• God sent us here to make mistakes

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Mistake, Making Mistakes

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

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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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  Thanksgiving, Moments, Praise

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.993, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Luxury

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1072, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Wise, Wisdom, Fate

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1004, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.

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  Fashion, Song, Sweet

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.112, Delphi Classics

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

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Faith, Ignorance, Doubt

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1908). “Poems of power”

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• No path is wholly rough.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Gratitude, Path, Rough

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1908). “Poems of power”

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• 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

  Children, Reading, Writing

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.726, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Heart, Thinking

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1153, Delphi Classics

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• 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!

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  Inspirational, Gay, People

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1456, Delphi Classics

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• The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  God, Spring, Men

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1901). “Every-day Thoughts in Prose and Verse”

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• My life's long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my path way I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold Has heralded her presence; but a vast Sweet calm that comes not till the year has passed Its fevered solstice, and a tinge of gold Subdues the vivid colouring of bold And passion-hued emotions. I will cast My August days behind me with my May, Nor strive to drag them into Autumn's place, Nor swear I hope when I do but remember. Now violet and rose have had their day, I'll pluck the soberer asters with good grace And call September nothing but September.

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  Summer, Sweet, Passion

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1135, Delphi Classics

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• Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
  In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
  That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams,
  And shoot the shadows through and through with light?
  What matters one lost vision of the night?
  Let the dream go!

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Beautiful, Dream

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.391, Jazzybee Verlag

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• And so for me there is no sting of death, And so the grave has lost its victory. It is but crossing-with abated breath And white, set face-a little strip of sea To find the loved ones waiting on the shore, More beautiful, more precious than before.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Beautiful, Sea

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Beyond”

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• Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way to go; When darkness falls ask God the path to show. Think for thyself and reason out thy plan; God has His work and thou hast thine. Exert thy will and use for self-control; God gave thee jurisdiction of thy soul. All thine immortal powers bring into play; Think, act, strive, reason, and look up and pray.

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  Strength, Fall, Thinking

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

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• Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"

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  Wise, Wisdom, Memories

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.249, Jazzybee Verlag

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