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It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the

It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Smile, Song
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.477, Jazzybee Verlag

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Inspirational, Life, Helping Others
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Fate, Blow
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “The Winds Of Fate”

With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays— there let them sleep, Nor seek to summon back one ghost Of that innumerable host. Concern yourself with but today; Woo it and teach it to obey Your wish and will. Since time began Today has been the friend of man. But in his blindness and his sorrow He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Sleep, Past
"Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox".

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love, Life, Friendship
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.9, eBookIt.com

'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
Life, Happiness, Smile
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Worth While”

There is no language that love does not speak.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Doe, Language
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1506, Delphi Classics

Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven Is Love's location. No dogmatic creed, No austere faith based on ignoble fear Can lead thee into realms of joy and peace. Unless the humblest creatures on the earth Are bettered by thy loving sympathy Think not to find a Paradise beyond.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Love Is, Thinking
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1121, Jazzybee Verlag

Between the finite and the infinite The missing link of Love has left a void. Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join In one continued chain of endless life.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Missing, Heaven
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1367, Delphi Classics

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love, Life, Women

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
Life, Faith, Gratitude

I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Hate, Men
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.556, Delphi Classics

Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth, There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Light, Giving
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1120, Jazzybee Verlag

Life is a garden forever in flower.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Flower, Garden
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.585, Delphi Classics

Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Hands, Treasure
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.571, Delphi Classics

This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Laughter, World
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.595, Delphi Classics

The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer, The headstones thicken along the way; And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger For those who walk with us day by day.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Night, Stronger
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.602, Jazzybee Verlag

Look in; and learn the wrong, and right, From your own soul's unwritten laws. And when you question, or demur, Let Love be your Interpreter.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Love Is, Law
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1116, Jazzybee Verlag

Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Too Short, Endeavor
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.493, Delphi Classics

Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Fate, Waiting
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1917). “The Collected Poems”

There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life, Heaven, Path Of Love
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1121, Jazzybee Verlag

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