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Quotes from Eliza Cook

I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.
~ Eliza Cook
Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.
~ Eliza Cook
I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still The deepest impressed on my heart.
~ Eliza Cook
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
~ Eliza Cook
There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.
~ Eliza Cook
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
~ 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
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
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
~ Eliza Cook
Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man.
~ Eliza Cook
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.
~ 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
The span of life is waning fast; Beware, unthinking youth, beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!
~ Eliza Cook
Oh! dear to memory are those hours When every pathway led to flowers; When sticks of peppermint possessed A sceptre's power o'er the breast, And heaven was round us while we fed On rich ambrosial gingerbread.
~ Eliza Cook
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
~ Eliza Cook