Quotes by Wilcox Ella Wheeler
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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.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.
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.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.
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.
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.
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!
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.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden-rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful land of Nod.
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.
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.
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.
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
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.
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.
'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.
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