Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919) was 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.
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“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 (1850–1919)
“Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by.”
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855–1919)
“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855–1919)
“It ain’t often that a man’s reputashun outlasts his munny.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818–1885)
“Give us that grand word “woman” once again,
And let’s have done with “lady”; one’s a term
Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm,
Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen;
And one’s a word for lackeys.”
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855–1919)