12 Quotes & Sayings By Eliza Cook

Eliza Cook is the best-selling author of 'How Not To Be Fat', 'How Not To Be Boring', and 'How Not To Be Tired'. She has also worked as a journalist for over 15 years, writing for websites like the Guardian, the Independent, and Huffington Post. She was also a reporter on Newsnight, BBC's flagship news programme. Eliza has appeared on the Today Programme, Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and was featured in The Sunday Times Read more

You can find her on Twitter @notfat_and_boring.

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How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart! Eliza Cook
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Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive. Eliza Cook
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I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye. Eliza Cook
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Who would not rather trust and be deceived? Eliza Cook
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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
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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
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On what strange stuff Ambition feeds! Eliza Cook
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Though language forms the preacher 'Tis "good works" make the man. Eliza Cook
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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
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The span of life is waning fast Beware unthinking youth beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear! Eliza Cook
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There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam. Eliza Cook