| 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... | |
| 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 away.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 weep alone ; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills... | |
| 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 weep alone ; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own." We hear a great... | |
| John Alexander Joyce - 1885 - 176 pages
...shall be blessed ! LOVE AND LAUGHTER. (DEDICATED TO GEORGE D. PRENTICE, 1863.) LAUGH, and the word laughs with you ; Weep, and you weep alone ; This grand old earth must borrow its mirth, It has troubles enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer ; Sigh, it is lost on the air ; The echoes... | |
| Lilien Wise - 1887 - 108 pages
...the sweets of Genoa, Than Tiber's yellow spray, Than all thy other beauties — Enchanting Monterey. Laugh, 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. Sing, and the hills... | |
| 1908 - 652 pages
...fragrance would forever Bring sweet thoughts to me of you. THE WAY OF THE WORLD. (Published by Request.) Laugh, and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone: For this brave old earth must borrow its iv.irth It has troubles enough of its own. Sing, and the hills... | |
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