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I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Age: 68 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 5
Died: 1919
Died: October 30
Author
Poet
Writer
Janesville
Wisconsin
Light
Fires
Better
Lights
Good
Grow
Men
Humanity
Love
Fire
Life
Grows
World
Evil
Extinguishes
Hate
Detect

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I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.
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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.
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Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe.
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No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
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Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams, And shoot the shadows through and through with light? What matters one lost vision of the night? Let the dream go!
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I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place.
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A poor original is better than a good imitation.
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Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind.
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