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
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!
pride weight easy
It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back
pain lying gains
But though that place I never gain, Herein lies comfort for my pain: I will be worthy of it.
pain rooms pleasure
There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.
positive wells positive-thinking-attitude
Say you are well, or all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true.
funny success art
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
gratitude path rough
No path is wholly rough.
wings world body
I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results--or ill.
confidence dream lying
Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.
pain heart cities
I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.
strong art clever
Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at your best endeavor. For the target art has a broad expanse, And wherever you chance to hit it, Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame, There are those who will never admit it.
years laughing burden
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.
goal waiting miracle
Not to the curious or impatient soulThat in the start, demands the end be shown,And at each step, stops waiting for a sign;But to the tireless toiler toward the goal,Shall the great miracles of God be knownAnd life revealed, immortal and divine.
dream sleep sky
This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.