328 Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back

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...

The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."

There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.

For every hour of pain I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair