"A poor original is better than a good…" — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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94 Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has 94 quotes on this site.
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Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away…
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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…
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I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.
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Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
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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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There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must…
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God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes…
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Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will…
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Know that you are great...so dominate.
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Talk not of the river or lake To those who have looked on the sea.
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Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the…
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