There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands;… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
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
This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who… — 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
Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven Is Love's location. No dogmatic creed, No austere faith based on ignoble fear Can… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Not to the curious or impatient soulThat in the start, demands the end be shown,And at each step, stops waiting for a… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
But now I know that there is no killing A thing like Love, for it laughs at Death. There is no hushing,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
With every rising of the sun, Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays;… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
My life's long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my path way I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Moon and Sea You are the moon, dear love, and I the sea: The tide of hope swells high within my breast,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays—… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Advice" I must do as you do? Your way I own Is a very good way, and still, There are sometimes two… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
There is no thing we cannot overcome Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Between the finite and the infinite The missing link of Love has left a void. Supply the link, and earth with Heaven… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is one who… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer, The headstones thicken along the way; And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Look in; and learn the wrong, and right, From your own soul's unwritten laws. And when you question, or demur, Let Love… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Be hald, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are to decline your nectared wine, But… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again. — 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
Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe'er thy pathway… — 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
