Years Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

11 Years quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s verses treat years as a stage for hope and aspiration. This brief anthology highlights her poetic optimism and the rhythmic flow of her reflections.

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Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.

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We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

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There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and…

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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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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in…

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It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of…

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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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It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who…

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What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years…

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My life's long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my path way I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor…

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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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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…

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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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