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Ella Wheeler Wilcox on Christmas

1850–1919 United States

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12 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)

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)

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

New Thought Pastels (1913)

There is no language that love does not speak

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)

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)

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.

New Thought Pastels (1913)

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.

New Thought Pastels (1913)

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.

Attribution

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