Eliza Cook Quotes

The span of life is waning fast Beware unthinking youth beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!

Eliza Cook

Oh! Much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay And much may be gained by relying On "Where there's a Will There's a Way."

Eliza Cook

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

Eliza Cook

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

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

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

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Eliza Cook

I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.

Eliza Cook

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.

Eliza Cook

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!

Eliza Cook