Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

» Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

» Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

» There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

» 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.

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

» All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

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

» With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

» 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.

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

» '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.

» A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

» Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

» For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

» It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

» The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.

» A weed is but an unloved flower.

» 'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

» Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.

» And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

» The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

» 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.

» You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

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