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Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

For this is wisdom- to love and live. To take what fate or the Gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow, To have and to hold, and, in time--let go.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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