On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
—Eliza Cook
Topics: Oddity, Peculiarity
Though language forms the preacher, ‘Tis “good works” make the man.
—Eliza Cook
Topics: Good Deeds, Deeds, Goodness
A cheer, then, for the noble breast that fears not danger’s post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most.
—Eliza Cook
Topics: Friendship
Better build schoolrooms for “the boy,” than cells and gibbets for “the man.”
—Eliza Cook
Topics: Education
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
—Eliza Cook
Topics: Ideals, Idealism
Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
—Eliza Cook
Topics: Memory
O God, how beautiful the thought, how merciful the blest decree, that grace can always be found when sought, and nought shut out the soul from thee.
—Eliza Cook
Topics: Mercy
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
—Eliza Cook
Topics: Trust
Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.
—Eliza Cook
Topics: Exaggeration
The span of life is waning fast; Beware, unthinking youth, beware! Thy soul’s eternity depends Upon the record moments bear.
—Eliza Cook
Topics: The Present
I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still
The deepest impressed on my heart.
—Eliza Cook
Topics: Mothers
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- Joan Collins English Actress
- Rebecca West English Author
- Reginald Horace Blyth British Japanologist
- Anne Bradstreet American Poet
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning English Poet
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