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Quotes from New Thought Pastels — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

1850–1919 United States

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Body and mind, and spirit, all combine
To make the Creature, human and divine. Of this great trinity no part deny.
Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.

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Each mental wave we send out from the mind,
Or base, or kind,
Completes its circuit, then with added force
Seeks its own source.

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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.

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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.

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Affirm the body, beautiful and whole,
The earth-expression of immortal soul. Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour,
To speed between thee and the source of power. Affirm the spirit, the Eternal I —
Of this great trinity no part deny.

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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.

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Attribution

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