Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.497, Jazzybee Verlag

• When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Change, Men, Views

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.54, eBookIt.com

• One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Fate, Blow

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “The Winds Of Fate”

• 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,
  Nor seek to summon back one ghost
  Of that innumerable host.
  Concern yourself with but today;
  Woo it and teach it to obey
  Your wish and will. Since time began
  Today has been the friend of man.
  But in his blindness and his sorrow
  He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Sleep, Past

  "Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox".

• I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Pain, Sorry

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics

• High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, "Remember Night!"

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Wise, Wisdom, Morning

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.510, Jazzybee Verlag

• Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Soul, World, May

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Progress”

• 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.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Character, Fire, Voice

• Look in; and learn the wrong, and right,
  From your own soul's unwritten laws.
  And when you question, or demur,
  Let Love be your Interpreter.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Love Is, Law

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1116, Jazzybee Verlag

• Let no one pray that they know not sorrow,
  Let no soul ask to be free from pain,
  For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow,
  And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.
  Through want of a thing does its worth redouble,
  Through hunger's pangs does the feast content,
  And only the heart that has harboured trouble
  Can fully rejoice when joy is sent.
  Let no one shrink from the bitter tonics
  Of grief, and yearning, and need, and strife,
  For the rarest chords in the soul's harmonics
  Are found in the minor strains of life.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sweet, Pain, Grief

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Life's Harmonies”

• Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way to go; When darkness falls ask God the path to show. Think for thyself and reason out thy plan; God has His work and thou hast thine. Exert thy will and use for self-control; God gave thee jurisdiction of thy soul. All thine immortal powers bring into play; Think, act, strive, reason, and look up and pray.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Strength, Fall, Thinking

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

• Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great Creator's hand, Thither by earthquakes hurled.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Lonely, Appreciation, Greatness

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1494, Delphi Classics

• Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspirational, Sweet, Pain

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.81, Jazzybee Verlag

• How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known?

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Journey, Goal

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.236, Jazzybee Verlag

• And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Wise, Wisdom, Lying

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1098, Delphi Classics

• Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Forgiveness, Mistake, Errors

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

• There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Forgiveness, War, Eye

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.702, Delphi Classics

• It stands in the light transfigured, It speaks from the heights above, "Each Soul Is Its Own Redeemer; There Is No Law But Love."

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Heart, Light

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1086, Delphi Classics

• Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Heart, Evil

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.76, Jazzybee Verlag

• Sweep up the debris of decaying faith;
  Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs,
  And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge.
  Be not afraid
  To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Light, Soul, Cobwebs

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Progress”

• Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Thinking, Men, Soul

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.577, Delphi Classics

• 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.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Confidence, Dream, Lying

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.567, Delphi Classics

• The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I;
  Nor 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.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love Life, Rivers, Soul

• No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Hope, Strong, Distance

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.573, Delphi Classics

• Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Sweet, Cells

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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