Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Yes, I have dreams. I ofttimes dream of Love As radiant and brilliant as a star. As changeless, too, as that fixed… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear.… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I; Nor church of my own, though a million spires are… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Love is the impulse which directs the world, And all things know it and obey its power. Man, in the maelstrom of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
We two make banquets of the plainest fare In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
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… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays— there let… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Don't anticipate the happiness of tomorrow. Discover it today. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
