"You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart."

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Source : "The Word". "New Thought Pastels". Book by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1906.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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“He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE.”
“I am responsible for what I see. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. I could see peace instead of THIS. The past is over it can touch me not. This instant is the only time there is. Today I will judge nothing that occurs. I am not the victim of the world I see. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. I am determined to see things differently. I am never upset for the reason I think. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. All that I give I give to myself.”
“So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
“This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.”
“Any slower and he'd be in reverse.”
“I usually get recognized for Spaceballs.”
“Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.”
“For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.”

Source : Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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