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Letter "E" » Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
«Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, Your head like the golden-rod, And we will go sailing away from here To the beautiful land of Nod»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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cuddle, cuddles, cuddling, Land of Nod, nod, rod, sailing, shoulder
«Between the finite and the infiniteThe missing link of Love has left a void.Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will joinIn one continued chain of endless life.»
«We ought to make the moments notesOf happy glad Thanksgiving;The hours and days, a silent praiseOf music we are living.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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happy hour, notes, thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, The Hours
«The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I;Not a church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high.But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river;And the lamp of my soul is alight with love for life, and the world, and the Giver.»
«BE STILL: Be stiller yet; and listen. Set the screenOf silence at the portal of your will.Relax, and let the world go by unheard.And seal your lips with some all-sacred word.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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go by, portal, portals, relax, screen, seal, stiller, the screen, unheard
«Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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charitable, goodwill, includes, lines, line of work, reform, sympathy, The Suffering, work in
«Then arise, O idle dreamer! Dreams are sweet,But better flowers are growing at your feet.If you crush, or pass unheeding, idle friend,You shall answer for their ruin in the end.»
«Far from the city's dust and heat,I get but sounds and odors sweet.Who can wonder I love to stay,Week after week, here hidden away,In this sly nook that I love the best --This little brown house like a ground-bird's nest?»
«We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest,And deal full many a thoughtless blowTo those who love us best.»
«It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.»
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