Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• Pain
• Lies
• Lying
• Comfort
• Gains
• Worthy

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• I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

  

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• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

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• The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

  

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• I've been doing African dance all my life.

  

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• I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.

  

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• The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

  

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• I just think people should be able to express themselves.

  

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• I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!

  

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• I have disassociated myself from that book.

  

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• I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

  

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• I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • You
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• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

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• I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.

  

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• Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

  

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• Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

  

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• I didn't choose acting. The universe did.

  

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• Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

  

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• The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.

  

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• All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

  

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• He remembered suddenly, at this moment, as he looked at the squares of moonlight lying on the floor, the time when he had first realized that pain is a thing that we must face and come to terms with if life is to be lived with dignity an not merely muddled through like an evil dream... In some vague way he had understood that dark things are necessary; without them the silver moonlight would just stream away into nothingness, but with them it can be held and arranged into beautiful squares.

  

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• Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?

  

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

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Pain
  • Lies
  • Lying