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

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

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

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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.

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I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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.

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A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

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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.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

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

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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

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A weed is but an unloved flower.

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There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

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One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

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You may choose your words like a connoisseur,

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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.

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Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.

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There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.

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That each sorrow has its purpose, By the sorrowing oft unguessed, But as sure as the sun brings morning, Whatever is-is best.

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

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Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.

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