Quotes of Eliza Cook - somelinesforyou

“ Those who pursue the stream of Truth to its sources have much climbing to do, much fatigue to encounter, but they see great sights. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ The possession of superior talent creates more wishes than it gratifies. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Words are sometimes signs of ideas; sometimes of the want of them. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart! ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart! ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Vanity is often so excessive, that those who are compelled to walk on crutches would fain make us believe they are raised on stilts. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Teeth should serve as a fence for the tongue. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ A cheer, then, for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Teeth should serve as a fence for the tongue. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ A cheer, then, for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Poets are the chemists of sentiment, for they analyze and purify it. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ The tear of sympathy never falls in vain; it waters and fertilizes the soil of the most sterile heart and causes it to flourish with the beautiful flowers of gratitude and love. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ A cheer, then, for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ The rich sunset makes the most sterile landscape enchanting. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Better build schoolrooms for "the boy," than cells and gibbets for "the man.". ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Trust him with little who, without proofs, trusts you with everything. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Those who pursue the stream of Truth to its sources have much climbing to do, much fatigue to encounter, but they see great sights. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Great is the number of those who might attain true wisdom if they did not already think themselves wise. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ The span of life is waning fast Beware, unthinking youth, beware! Thy soul's eternity depends upon the records moments bear. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Sleep soothes and arrests the fever-pulse of the soul. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Wisdom is a palace, of which only the vestibule has yet been entered. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Perseverance is to patience what the thread is to the needle. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ If strength alone ruled, the elephant would be king of the world. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ He who cannot keep his own secret ought not to complain if another tells it. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ A cheer, then, for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Satire is a glass in which the beholder sees everybody's face but his own. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Art is but a mirror, which gives back what is cast on its surface faithfully only while unsullied. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Words are sometimes signs of ideas; sometimes of the want of them. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart! ”

- Eliza Cook
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