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
originality imitation poor
A poor original is better than a good imitation.
sparks divine thee
The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.
climbs you-choose
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose.
kindness wish world
Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .
mistake making-mistakes
God sent us here to make mistakes
climbs
Always continue to climb.
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.
love-life rivers soul
The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I; Nor church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high. But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river; And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver.
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!
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.
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.
dream sleep sky
This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.
strength fall thinking
Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way to go; When darkness falls ask God the path to show. Think for thyself and reason out thy plan; God has His work and thou hast thine. Exert thy will and use for self-control; God gave thee jurisdiction of thy soul. All thine immortal powers bring into play; Think, act, strive, reason, and look up and pray.
strength inspiration mind
There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.