All Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“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.”
“How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair”
“It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends'. I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me.”
“'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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“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
“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 man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.”
“We flatter those we scarcely know,”
“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!”
“'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.”
“Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.”
“No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.”
“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you;”
“To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.”