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Eliza Cook Quotes

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

Eliza Cook

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

Tags: cruel, echoes, heart, memory, sweet, tune

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Eliza Cook

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Tags: trust, failures, mistakes, deceived, rather, would

About Author
Eliza Cook (24 December 1818 – 23 September 1889) was an English author and poet associated with the Chartist movement. She was a proponent of political freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up." This made her hugely popular with the working class public in both England and America.

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.

Eliza Cook

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.

Tags: perception

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 noblest breast That fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.

Tags: friendship

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

Eliza Cook

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

Tags: greed

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

Eliza Cook

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

Tags: happiness

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

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."

Tags: success

I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.

Eliza Cook

I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.

Tags: harmony, peace, way of life

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

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.

Tags: friendship, times

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

Eliza Cook

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

Tags: this, moment

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

Eliza Cook

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

Tags: heart, land, tie