Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; Ella Wheeler Wilcox More Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox More Quotes From Ella Wheeler Wilcox To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. Ella Wheeler Wilcox To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men. Ella Wheeler Wilcox No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity. Ella Wheeler Wilcox man adversity strength art You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart. Ella Wheeler Wilcox words you heart art Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old. Ella Wheeler Wilcox hate love men world Earth is the anteroom of Heaven, if we choose to see it so. Ella Wheeler Wilcox choose see earth heaven