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“A poor original is better than a good imitation.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. ”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“For this is wisdom- to love and live
To take what fate or the Gods may give,
To ask no question, to make no prayer,
To kiss the lips and caress the hair,
Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow,
To have and to hold, and, in time--let go.”
― Laurence Hope

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
― Walt Whitman

“Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.”
― Walt Whitman

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent, or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt