Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcoxwas an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 November 1850
CountryUnited States of America
art may connoisseur
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.
motivational fate waiting
Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate.
archer anger arrows
You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!
love pain angel
Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain height, And, like an angel, stands beside us there; Then thrusts us, demon-like, in some abyss: Where, in the darkness of despair, we grope, Till, suddenly, Love greets us with a kiss And guides us back to flowery fields of hope.
soul world may
Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
beautiful insomnia land
Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod.
life hate men
I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.
life faith gratitude
The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
leadership freedom business
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
sleep past men
With every rising of the sun, Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays; there let them sleep. Concern yourself with but today, Woo it, and teach it to obey Your will and wish. Since time began Today has been the friend of man; But in his blindness and his sorrow, He looks to yesterday and tomorrow. You, and today! a soul sublime, And the great pregnant hour of time, With God himself to bind the twain! Go forth, I say-attain, attain! With God himself to bind the twain!
beautiful giving cost
Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost.
inspirational life helping-others
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
kindness dark generosity
Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.
memorable
No question is ever settled until it is settled right.