Faces Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

11 Faces quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s poetic reflections on the masks we wear are distilled into eleven brief lines. Even in this small set, her lyrical optimism shines.

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While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting…

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How happy they are, in all seeming, How gay, or how smilingly proud, How brightly their faces are beaming, These people who…

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It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of…

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I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In…

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There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led.…

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God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in…

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There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men…

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The birds laugh loud and long together When Fashion's followers speed away At the first cool breath of autumn weather. Why, this…

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And so for me there is no sting of death, And so the grave has lost its victory. It is but crossing-with…

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Moon and Sea You are the moon, dear love, and I the sea: The tide of hope swells high within my breast,…

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Went up from my feet to my head, With little chills after it stealing- And my hands got as numb as the…

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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…

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Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I…

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With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays— there let…

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“Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.”

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Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such…

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Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

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Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.

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I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world…

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All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet…

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Content is not the pathway to great deeds.

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Don't anticipate the happiness of tomorrow. Discover it today.

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“And yet I would not be a child again. For surely as the night succeeds the day, So surely will their mirth turn into…

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Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.

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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…

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