Love is Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

12 Love is quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox often infused love with bright optimism and vivid imagery. These twelve short verses provide a quick taste of her uplifting, lyrical style.

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Love is the only duty that we know.

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Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.

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Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.

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Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls…

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Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense…

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no…

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Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing…

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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 is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law…

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Look in; and learn the wrong, and right, From your own soul's unwritten laws. And when you question, or demur, Let Love…

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Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven Is Love's location. No dogmatic creed, No austere faith based on ignoble fear Can…

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Love is the impulse which directs the world, And all things know it and obey its power. Man, in the maelstrom of…

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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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