Ella Wheeler Wilcox quotes - Page : 5

" You may choose your word 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. You may work on your word a thousand weeks, But it will not glow like one That all unsought, leaps forth white hot, When the fountains of feeling run. " # Love # Arts and Artists # Life and Living

" Look to the Great Eternal Cause And not to any man, for light. Look in; and learn the wrong, and right, From your own soul's unwritten laws. And when you question, or demur, Let Love be your Interpreter. " # Dissent # Love # Death and Dying

" 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. " # Family # Truth # Love

" Not to the curious or impatient soul That in the start, demands the end be shown, And at each step, stops waiting for a sign; But to the tireless toiler toward the goal, Shall the great miracles of God be known And life revealed, immortal and divine. " # Cities and City Life # Love # Miracles

" Breathe 'God,' in any tongue —it means the same; LOVE ABSOLUTE: Think, feel, absorb the thought; Shut out all else; until a subtle flame (A spark from God's creative centre caught) Shall permeate your being, and shall glow, Increasing in its splendour, till, YOU KNOW. " # Love # Creativity # Friends and Friendship

" Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer, Of courage and success, to friend and stranger. And from a thousand sources, far and near, Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger. " # Friends and Friendship # Success # Courage

" Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth, There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning. " # Love # Writers and Writing # Friends and Friendship

" Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith —these three alone are great. " # Love # Faith # Power

" Who climbs the mountain does not always climb. The winding road slants downward many a time; Yet each descent is higher than the last. " # Dogs # Ancestry # Success

" Who would attain to summits still and fair, Must nerve himself through valleys of despair. " # Age and Aging # Despair # Adversity