73 Quotes by Ella Wilcox

Succeed and give, and it helps you live,But no man can help you die.

Some souls there are that needs must tasteOf wrong, ere choosing right;We should not call those years a wasteWhich led us to the light.

Somebody's sorrow is making me weep:I know not her name, but I echo her cry,For the dearly bought baby she longed so to keep,The baby that rode to its long-lasting sleepIn the little white hearse that went rumbling by.

So young, and yet I have had all of life.Why, men have lived to see a hundred years,Who have not known the rapture, joy, and strifeOf my brief youth, its passion and its tears.

Do you wish the world were happy?Then remember day by dayJust to scatter seeds of kindnessAs you pass along the way. . . .

Do you wish the world were better?Let me tell you what to do.Set a watch upon your actions,Keep them always straight and true.

Back on its golden hingesThe gate of Memory swings,And my heart goes into the gardenAnd walks with the olden things.

Think your life was made for dreaming, nothing more,When God's work lies all unfinished at your door?

The year's four changing seasons broughtTo her own door what thousands soughtIn wandering ways and did not find -Diversion and content of mind.