“In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Between the finite and the infinite The missing link of Love has left a void. Supply the link, and earth with Heaven… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
In the long run all love is paid by love, Though undervalued by the hosts of earth; The great eternal Government above… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“ Two Kinds of People There are two kinds of people on earth today, Two kinds of people no more I say.… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays— there let… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Don't anticipate the happiness of tomorrow. Discover it today. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
