| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1914 - 872 pages
...reckoned to be an inalienable possession. Habitually that mind dwelt upon the brighter side of things. ' Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone.' Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox's famous injunction had been familiar to her since childhood. She knew that... | |
| Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture - 1893 - 882 pages
...the sorrow and grief that is a necessary part of human life, for there is truth in the poet's words : Laugh, and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For this grand old earth must borrow its mirth, But has SOITOW enough of its own." So she has need to learn... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1921 - 566 pages
...and hands would allow. Perhaps this pretty jingle of words might express the sunshine of her life, "Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone, This sad old earth has need of your mirth, She has sorrows enough of her own." Long since she passed... | |
| Gertrude Lefferts Vanderbilt - 1909 - 734 pages
...although it is not wholly true, yet there is a great deal of truth in the little song that tells us : " Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone, For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, It has troubles enough of its own. " Sing and the hills... | |
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox - 1883 - 130 pages
...fail To pierce a soul so armored and arrayed That Death himself might look on it and quail. SOLITUDE. Laugh, and the world laughs with you ; Weep, and you...borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air ; The echoes bound to a joyful sound,... | |
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox - 1883 - 176 pages
...armored and arrayed That death himself might look on it and quail. SOLITUDE. 131 L SOLITUDE. AUGH, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone, For the sad old earth must borrow its m'.rth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the... | |
| Thomas De Witt Talmage - 1884 - 374 pages
...are no worse than the sorrows of others ; we all have our griefs and all have our heart-breaks." " Laugh, and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you...people do not go to church. Some say it is because Christian1ty is slowly dying out, and because people do not believe in the truth of God's Word, and... | |
| New York (State) School for the deaf, White Plains - 1885 - 942 pages
...bear in mind that cheerfulness, under all circumstances, is a potent panacea for the ills of life. , and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone ; For this brave old Earth must borrow its mirth — It has trouble enough of its own." Upon the conclusion... | |
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