Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Use all your hidden forces. Do not miss The purpose of this life, and do not wait For circumstance to mould or… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing;… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Unwearied, and with springing steps elate, I had conveyed my wealth along the road. The empty sack proved now a heavier load:… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share
Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share
With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays— there let… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share
Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share
I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share
All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share
“And yet I would not be a child again. For surely as the night succeeds the day, So surely will their mirth turn into… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share
Oh! not for the great departed, Who formed our country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted, Who died in freedom's cause, And not for… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share
