Pain Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

11 Pain quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox turns pain into poetic moments, each brief line humming with rhythm and emotion. The collection may be short, but it offers a taste of her ability to distill ache into memorable verses.

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For every hour of pain I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content.

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There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file…

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But though that place I never gain, Herein lies comfort for my pain: I will be worthy of it.

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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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I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's…

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I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights…

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Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of…

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One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one…

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I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew…

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Let no one pray that they know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of…

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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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“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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