Waiting Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

10 Waiting quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Wilcox’s ten lines turn the idle stretch of time into a canvas for optimism. Her verses suggest that waiting can be a catalyst for personal resolve and bright expectation.

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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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Use all your hidden forces. Do not miss The purpose of this life, and do not wait For circumstance to mould or…

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Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three…

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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…

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Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate.

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Not to the curious or impatient soulThat in the start, demands the end be shown,And at each step, stops waiting for a…

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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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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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Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless…

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No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it,…

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

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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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