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
pain lying gains
But though that place I never gain, Herein lies comfort for my pain: I will be worthy of it.
contentment deeds pathways
Content is not the pathway to great deeds.
children father son
It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself ...
lost pens misused
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.
moving world
... love moves the world along.
love-is duty knows
Love is the only duty that we know ...
past
Keep out of the past. It is haunted.
capacity
Trust in your own untried capacity.
religious names evil
It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.
sad pain heart
One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain...
friendship night thinking
I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light...
positive attitude blow
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
time passing-away this-too-shall-pass
And let its meaning permeate Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.
time time-love strain
Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.