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There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.


Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX A mighty monarch in the days of old
Made offer of high honour, wealth and gold,
To one who sho...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX In the long run all love is paid by love,
Though undervalued by the hosts of earth;
The grea...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX From reincarnated sources and through prenatal causes I was born with unquenchable hope and unfalter...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX To sin by silence, when we should protest,Makes cowards out of men. The human raceHas climbed on pro...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay,...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train,
But one by one we must al...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX So many Gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being ki...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in re...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice o...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Give us that grand word woman once again, and let's have done with lady; one's a term full of fine f...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the o...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX He who leads
Must then be strong and hopeful as the dawn
That rises unafraid and full of joy<...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX No fate could rob us of our own--
No circumstance can make it less;
What time removes was bu...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX A weed is but an unloved flower.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I prayed for riches and achieved success,
All that I touched turned into gold. Alas!
My cares...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow it...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails an...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX You like buttercups, dewy sweet,
And crocuses, framed in snow;
I like roses, born of the heat,...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX One ship sails east and another sails west
With the self-same winds that blow.
Tis the set of...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For this brave old earth must...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX "Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the peop...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear,
Your head like the golden-rod,
And we will go sai...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The worlds best progrss springs.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs the...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is a...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX One ship drives east and the other drives west by the self same winds that blow. It's the set of the...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
That yet...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve o...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Be not impatient in delay,But wait as one who understands;When spirit rises and commands,The gods ar...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest,And deal full many a thoughtless blow...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX "Conversation"

God and I in space alone . . .
and nobody else in view . . .
"And wh...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, an...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX A poor original is better than a good imitation.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX It is easy to tell the toiler
How best he can carry his pack
But no one can rate a burden...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX This is the way of it, sad earth over,
The heart that breaks is the heart of the lover,
And ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Do you wish the world were happy?
Then remember day by day
Just to scatter seeds of kindness...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I know that the soul is aided
Sometimes by the heart's unrest,
And to grow means often to su...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX When the great universe was wrought
To might and majesty from naught,
The all creative force...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The life that neither grief nor burden knowsIs dwarfed in sympathy before its close.The life that gr...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX What can be said in New Year rhymes,That's not been said a thousand times?The new years come, the ol...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Waste no tearsUpon the blotted record of lost years,But turn the leaf, and smile, oh! smile, to seeT...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The splendid discontent of God With Chaos, made the world; And from the discontent of man The world'...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than i...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Such menial duties; but her wayOf looking at them lent a graceTo things the world deemed commonplace...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Who is the strong? Not he who puts to testHis sinews with the strong and proves the best;But he who ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Though critics may bow to art, and I am its own true lover,
It is not art, but heart, which win...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I hold it true that thoughts are things
Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings,
And that w...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX To sin by silence, when we should protest,Makes cowards out of men.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The human Will, that force unseen,The offspring of a deathless Soul,Can hew the way to any goal,Thou...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX If there be mortal without love,He wakes to no new life above.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Life hurries pasttoo strong to stop;too sweet to loose.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX When we tell about our cause,Politicians only smile;While they mould and make our laws,What care the...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Though desolateThe way may seem, command thy fate.Send forth thy thought -Create--CREATE!
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Say you are well, or all is well with you,And God shall hear your words and make them true.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Our souls should be vessels receivingThe waters of love for relievingThe sorrows of men.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Whatever comes, this too shall pass away.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX This is the way of it, wide world over,One is beloved, and one is the lover,One gives and the other ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Whatever the task that comes your way,Just take it as part of your luck.Look it right square in the ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Succeed and give, and it helps you live,But no man can help you die.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Thou hast but to resolve, and lo! God’s wholeGreat universe shall fortify thy soul.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.Let the fool prate of luck. The fortunateIs he whose e...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Far from the city's dust and heat,I get but sounds and odors sweet.Who can wonder I love to stay,Wee...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I;Not a church of my own, though a million spi...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, Your head like the golden-rod, And we will go sailing a...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Give us that grand word "woman" once again, And let's have done with "lady"; one's a term Full of fi...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I know there are no errors,In the great Eternal plan,And all things work togetherFor the final good ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Do you wish the world were better?Let me tell you what to do.Set a watch upon your actions,Keep them...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX So young, and yet I have had all of life.Why, men have lived to see a hundred years,Who have not kno...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to kno...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX This is the way of it, sad earth over,The heart that breaks is the heart of the lover,And the other ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Do you wish the world were happy?Then remember day by dayJust to scatter seeds of kindnessAs you pas...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX For here lies the pleasure of living:In taking God's bounties, and givingThe gifts back again.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX So much of love her spirit had,She found an ever-flowing springOf happiness in everything.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX And I am glad my heart can say,When others trip and fall(Although I safely passed that way),"I under...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX When the great universe was wroughtTo might and majesty from naught,The all creative force was -THOU...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restle...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried;Then ask God's help; it will not be denied.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood /no ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX If I could only weep,I think sweet help with my salt tears would come,To ease the cruel pain that is...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX All in the dark we grope along,And if we go amissWe learn at least which path is wrong,And there is ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other,That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Back on its golden hingesThe gate of Memory swings,And my heart goes into the gardenAnd walks with t...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX There's one sad truth in life I've foundWhile journeying east and west -The only folks we really wou...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX If you work with zeal and ardor till the night,You can only make the wasted moments right.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the peopl...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The river seeking for the seaConfronts the dam and precipice,Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;You wi...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Between the finite and the infiniteThe missing link of Love has left a void.Supply the link, and ear...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Then arise, O idle dreamer! Dreams are sweet,But better flowers are growing at your feet.If you crus...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I know that the soul is aidedSometimes by the heart's unrest,And to grow means often to suffer --But...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX 'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Love, that outreaches to the humblest things;Work that is glad, in what it does and brings;And faith...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vis...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX We ought to make the moments notesOf happy glad Thanksgiving;The hours and days, a silent praiseOf m...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The two kinds of people on earth that I meanAre the people who lift and the people who lean.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Some souls there are that needs must tasteOf wrong, ere choosing right;We should not call those year...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX ...the smile that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Fear is the twin of Faith's sworn foe, Distrust.If one breaks in your heart the other must.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Feast, and your halls are crowded
Fast, and the world goes by
Succeed and give, and it hel...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is t...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sail...
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ELLA WHEELER WILCOX It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Earth is the anteroom of Heaven, if we choose to see it so.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Between the finite and the infinite
The missing link of Love has left a void.
Supply the lin...
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