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A weed is but an unloved flower.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Acceptance Flowers Gardening Love Weeds

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Happiness Poetry Sadness

We two make banquets of the plainest fareIn every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measureWe two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Friendship Harmony Love Perfection Pleasure Simplicity

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Art Imagination Originality

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own.Sing, and the hills will answer;Sigh, it is lost on the air;The echoes bound to a joyful sound,But shrink from voicing care.Rejoice, and men will seek you;Grieve, and they turn and go;They want full measure of all your pleasure,But they do not need your woe.Be glad, and your friends are many;Be sad, and you lose them all,—There are none to decline your nectared wine,But alone you must drink life’s gall.Feast, and your halls are crowded;Fast, and the world goes by.Succeed and give, and it helps you live,But no man can help you die.There is room in the halls of pleasureFor a large and lordly train,But one by one we must all file onThrough the narrow aisles of pain.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Ella Wheeler Wilcox Laugh Mirth Pain Trouble

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Greatness Happy Kind Mind Wisdom

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Choose Possible Power

Feast, and your halls are crowdedFast, and the world goes bySucceed and give, and it helps you liveBut no man can help you die

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Positive Attitude Positive Thinking

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Bitter Insperational Love Poem

After the fierce midsummer all ablaze Has burned itself to ashes, and expires In the intensity of its own fires,There come the mellow, mild, St. Martin daysCrowned with the calm of peace, but sad with haze. So after Love has led us, till he tires Of his own throes, and torments, and desires,Comes large-eyed friendship: with a restful gaze,He beckons us to follow, and across Cool verdant vales we wander free from care. Is it a touch of frost lies in the air?Why are we haunted with a sense of loss?We do not wish the pain back, or the heat;And yet, and yet, these days are incomplete

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Friendship Love Poem

All Mad'He is mad as a hare, poor fellow, And should be in chains,' you say,I haven't a doubt of your statement, But who isn't mad, I pray?Why, the world is a great asylum, And the people are all insane,Gone daft with pleasure or folly, Or crazed with passion and pain.The infant who shrieks at a shadow, The child with his Santa Claus faith,The woman who worships Dame Fashion, Each man with his notions of death,The miser who hoards up his earnings, The spendthrift who wastes them too soon,The scholar grown blind in his delving, The lover who stares at the moon.The poet who thinks life a paean, The cynic who thinks it a fraud,The youth who goes seeking for pleasure, The preacher who dares talk of God,All priests with their creeds and their croaking, All doubters who dare to deny,The gay who find aught to wake laughter, The sad who find aught worth a sigh,Whoever is downcast or solemn, Whoever is gleeful and gay,Are only the dupes of delusions— We are all of us—all of us mad.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Crazy People Delusions Human Nature Mad World Madness Poetry

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Acquiescence Activism Free Speech Justice Principles Protest

After the fierce midsummer all ablaze Has burned itself to ashes, and expires In the intensity of its own fires,There come the mellow, mild, St. Martin daysCrowned with the calm of peace, but sad with haze. So after Love has led us, till he tires Of his own throes, and torments, and desires,Comes large-eyed friendship: with a restful gaze,He beckons us to follow, and across Cool verdant vales we wander free from care. Is it a touch of frost lies in the air?Why are we haunted with a sense of loss?We do not wish the pain back, or the heat;And yet, and yet, these days are incomplete.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems

Moon and SeaYou are the moon, dear love, and I the sea:The tide of hope swells high within my breast,And hides the rough dark rocks of life's unrestWhen your fond eyes smile near in perigee.But when that loving face is turned from me,Low falls the tide, and the grim rocks appear,And earth's dim coast-line seems a thing to fear.You are the moon, dear one, and I the sea.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Love Moon Moon And Sea Sea

UselessnessLet mine not be the saddest fate of all, To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall Let me hear rather the imperious call, Which all men dread, in my glad morning time, And follow death ere I have reached my prime, Or drunk the strengthening cordial of life's gall. The lightning's stroke or the fierce tempest blast Which fells the green tree to the earth to-day Is kinder than the calm that lets it last, Unhappy witness of its own decay. May no man ever look on me and say, 'She lives, but all her usefulness is past.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Dying Young Growing Old Life And Death Life Purpose Living Your Best Life Poetry

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Friends Family

With every deed you are sowing a seed though the harvest you may not see.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Helping People

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Self Acceptance

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Art Adversity Man

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Soul Destiny Control

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Life Good Vision

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Sad Wind World

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Love Sand Like

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Tears Earth Through

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Life Man Men

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Silence Sin Protest

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Mountain Climb View
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