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The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.
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'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.
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A poor original is better than a good imitation.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
Use all your hidden forces. Do not miss The purpose of this life, and do not wait For circumstance to mould or change your fate.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.
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'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.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense For all the ills that have been, or may be.
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Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting heart to understand That which has puzzled all the human race.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back
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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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Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.
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Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
Life is a garden forever in flower.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.
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A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays— there let them sleep, Nor seek to summon back one ghost Of that innumerable host. Concern yourself with but today; Woo it and teach it to obey Your wish and will. Since time began Today has been the friend of man. But in his blindness and his sorrow He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.
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Know that you are great...so dominate.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
All roads that lead to God are good.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox