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Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

1850–1919 United States

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (5 November 1850 – 30 October 1919) was an American poet.

United States
19th-century poets
Activists
Authors
Memoirists

Also known as: Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Random Ella Wheeler Wilcox quote

48 quotes

There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.
Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

New Thought Pastels (1913)

Unless the humblest creatures on the earth
Are bettered by thy loving sympathy
Think not to find a Paradise beyond.

New Thought Pastels (1913)

No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.

Poems of Pleasure (1900)

You never can tell when you do an act
Just what the result will be;
But with every deed you are sowing a seed,
Though the harvest you may not see.

You Never Can Tell (1895)

To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.

New Thought Pastels (1913)

Between the finite and the infinite
The missing link of Love has left a void.
Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join
In one continued chain of endless life.

New Thought Pastels (1913)

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.

All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

New Thought Pastels (1913)

Each thing must create its kind;
And they speed o'er the track to bring you back
Whatever went out from your mind.

You Never Can Tell (1895)

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
Can circumvent or hinder or control
The firm resolve of a determined soul.

New Thought Pastels (1913)

There is no language that love does not speak

Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour,
To speed between thee and the source of power.

New Thought Pastels (1913)

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.

New Thought Pastels (1913)

But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays,
Is the word that comes from the heart.

New Thought Pastels (1913)

I find a rapture linked with each despair,
Well worth the price of anguish. I detect
More good than evil in humanity.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes,
And men grow better as the world grows old.

Poems of Pleasure (1900)

There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.

Here, on this side of the grave,
Here, should we labor and love.

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

New Thought Pastels (1913)

Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven
Is Love's location.

New Thought Pastels (1913)

Who would attain to summits still and fair,
Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

New Thought Pastels (1913)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.