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

— Ella Wilcox · Wisdom quote

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

— ELLA WILCOX

American poet · 1850 – 1919

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American poet whose verse appeared in newspapers across the country. Her best-known lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone", come from the poem "Solitude" (1883).

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