Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
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I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.
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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
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The power of the ADA is that it ended up changing my life long before I ever imagined it would.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
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Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.
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The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.
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O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.
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Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid.
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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.
