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Eliza Cook (1818-1889)

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Better build schoolrooms for 'the boy',
Than cells and gibbets for 'the man'.

ELIZA COOK, A Song for the Ragged Schools

On what strange stuff ambition feeds!

ELIZA COOK, Thomas Hood

The Prince and the peasant, the despot and slave;
All, all must bow down to the worm and the grave.

ELIZA COOK, Song of the Worm

Death is simply the soul's change of residence.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

The friendships of the world are often confederacies in vice.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Time is a treasure to the industrious, a burden to the indolent.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

That charity which longs to publish itself ceases to be charity.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

A good book, in the language of the booksellers, is a saleable one; in the language of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructful one.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, when they only hate the manner of it.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

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

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Poverty too often turns the milk of human kindness into gall.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Concealed griefs are the most consuming, as secret maladies are the most fatal.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Ideas generate ideas; like a potato, which, cut in pieces, reproduces itself in a multiplied form.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

The most mischievous liars are those who keep on the verge of truth.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

When Charity walks into the lower places of Want, we most distinctly see the purity of her robes.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Example moves more than homily, though it be less clamorous.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Dreams are pegs for Superstition and Romance to hang their cloaks upon.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Teeth should serve as a fence for the tongue.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

An honest man is believed without an oath, for his reputation swears for him.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

In jealousy there is more love of self than of anyone else.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Praise is a rebuke to the man whose conscience alloweth it not.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Glory is so enchanting, that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

He who is indifferent to praise is generally dead to shame.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

He who toys with Time, trifles with a frozen serpent, which afterwards turns upon the hand that indulged the sport, and inflicts a deadly wound.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

All men need truth as they need water; if wise men are as high grounds where the springs rise, ordinary men are the lower grounds which their waters nourish.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Christianity is the oxygen of the moral world.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

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

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

The heart of a coquette, like the tail of a lizard, always grows again after she has lost it.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

To be very greedy of praise proves that we are poor in merit.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Truth is a gem which will only reflect the rays that come direct from heaven.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

The greatest truths are the simplest.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse while he is leaping.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

The man who lives alone is apt to forget the individuality of others; the man who lives in society is apt to forget his own.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Zeal without judgment is like gunpowder in the hands of a child.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Reality plants a thorny hedge around our dreaming, while the sporting ground of the possible is ever free and open.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion; and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

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

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

He is a thorough accountant who can cast up correctly the sum of his own errors.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

No gold glitters like that which is our own.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Take care of the minutes, and the days will take care of themselves.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Words never can express the whole that we feel: they give but an outline.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

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

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

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

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Lawyers generally know too much of law to have a very clear perception of justice.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

The doors of the Temple of Flattery are so low that they can only be entered by crawling.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

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

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavour.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

We talk of acquiring a habit; we should rather say being acquired by it.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

It is internal union, not external agreement, that makes the real marriage.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

A man's virtue should not be measured by his occasional exertions, but by his ordinary doings.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

We should use a book as a bee does a flower.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

He who swears tells us that his bare word is not to be credited.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Every deceased friend is a magnet drawing us into another world.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

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, Diamond Dust

Poetry is the music of the soul, and above all, of great and feeling souls.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

In order to deserve a true friend, we must learn first to be one.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

Death is the sleeping partner of life.

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

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

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust

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

ELIZA COOK, Diamond Dust


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