“I'm no reformer; for I see more light
Than darkness in the world; mine eyes are quick
To catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,
And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm.”

—  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Poetry quotes, Poems of Pleasure (1900)

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American author and poet 1850–1919

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