Ella Wilcox Men Quotations

If you are seeking health, wealth, usefulness, skill in any direction, there is nothing and no one who can hinder your attainment of the coveted boon, if you are willing to work and wait.

Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the people,Oh Lord" I said, "the earth below and the sky overheadand the dead that I once knew?""That was a dream," God smiledand said: "The dream that seemed tobe true; there were no peopleliving or dead; there was no earth, and no sky overhead,there was only myself in you.""Why do I feel no fear?" I asked,"meeting you here in this way?For I have sinned, I know full welland is there heaven and is there hell,and is this Judgement Day?""Nay, those were but dreams" the Great God said, "dreams that have ceased to be.There are no such things as fear and sin;there is no you . . . you never have been.There is nothing at all but me.

We ought to make the moments notesOf happy glad Thanksgiving;The hours and days, a silent praiseOf music we are living.

To sin by silence, when we should protest,Makes cowards out of men.

Such menial duties; but her wayOf looking at them lent a graceTo things the world deemed commonplace.

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.

Live to learn, and learn to liveIf you want to give men knowledgeYou must get, ere you give.

If you work with zeal and ardor till the night,You can only make the wasted moments right.