Spirituality Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

11 Spirituality quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s eleven brief verses combine lyrical charm with thoughtful musings on the inner self, perfect for a quick literary lift.

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Affirm the body, beautiful and whole, The earth-expression of immortal soul. Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour, To speed between…

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Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no…

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Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs, And throw your soul wide open to…

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Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of…

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How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for…

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Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole.…

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It stands in the light transfigured, It speaks from the heights above, "Each Soul Is Its Own Redeemer; There Is No Law…

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Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to…

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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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It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is…

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The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I; Nor church of my own, though a million spires are…

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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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