328 Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Keep out of the past. It is haunted.

Trust in your own untried capacity.

Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.

It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.

Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.

Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.

One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain...

Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.

I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light...