Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Eliza Cook (English Poet)

Eliza Cook (1818–89) was an English author and poet associated with the Chartist movement. She was hugely popular with the working class in England and America.

Born in Southwark, London, Cook was the daughter of a London tradesman. Primarily self-educated, she began writing verses at an early age. Her first volume, Lays of a Wild Harp (1835,) appeared when she was 17.

Encouraged by early success, Cook regularly contributed to periodicals, including the New Monthly and Weekly Dispatch, in which her most famous poem, ‘The Old Armchair,’ first appeared in 1837. Written in memory of her beloved mother, the poem was known for a common-sensical domestic viewpoint that was considered unpretentious and moral but never sentimental. She published Melaia and Other Poems (1838.)

Cook’s poems were distinguished by an unpretentious domestic sentiment, which appealed to general uncultured preferences. She conducted Eliza Cook’s Journal (1849–54,) republished as Jottings from My Journal (1860.)

Cook followed this with New Echoes and Other Poems (1864.) Her popularity and health deteriorated later in life, and she had a disability for many years. Her complete poetical works were published in 1870.

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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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