Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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• If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.

  

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• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

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• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

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• Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

  

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• All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

  

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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

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• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

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• I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

  

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• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

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• You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • God
  • Inspiration
  • Sin