328 Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough Without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.

With every rising of the sun, Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays; there let them sleep. Concern yourself with but today, Woo it, and teach it to obey Your will and wish. Since time began Today has been the friend of man; But in his blindness and his sorrow, He looks to yesterday and tomorrow. You, and today! a soul sublime, And the great pregnant hour of time, With God himself to bind the twain! Go forth, I say-attain, attain! With God himself to bind the twain!

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.

Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost.

Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.