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Giving Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

13 Giving quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox captures the rhythm of generosity in verse. Her thirteen pieces weave emotion and moral insight, inviting readers to feel the pulse of giving beyond the ordinary, and perhaps to let a little poetry guide their own acts of kindness.

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For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

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All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it…

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Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost.

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Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no…

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Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives…

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Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

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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…

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It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the…

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There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing;…

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Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great…

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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…

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In the long run all love is paid by love, Though undervalued by the hosts of earth; The great eternal Government above…

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Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain…

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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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