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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.


Larry Wilcox

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ELLA WHEELER WILCOX There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve o...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
That yet...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve o...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Be not impatient in delay,But wait as one who understands;When spirit rises and commands,The gods ar...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest,And deal full many a thoughtless blow...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX "Conversation"

God and I in space alone . . .
and nobody else in view . . .
"And wh...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, an...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX A poor original is better than a good imitation.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX It is easy to tell the toiler
How best he can carry his pack
But no one can rate a burden...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX This is the way of it, sad earth over,
The heart that breaks is the heart of the lover,
And ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Do you wish the world were happy?
Then remember day by day
Just to scatter seeds of kindness...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I know that the soul is aided
Sometimes by the heart's unrest,
And to grow means often to su...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX When the great universe was wrought
To might and majesty from naught,
The all creative force...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The life that neither grief nor burden knowsIs dwarfed in sympathy before its close.The life that gr...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX What can be said in New Year rhymes,That's not been said a thousand times?The new years come, the ol...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Waste no tearsUpon the blotted record of lost years,But turn the leaf, and smile, oh! smile, to seeT...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The splendid discontent of God With Chaos, made the world; And from the discontent of man The world'...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than i...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Such menial duties; but her wayOf looking at them lent a graceTo things the world deemed commonplace...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Who is the strong? Not he who puts to testHis sinews with the strong and proves the best;But he who ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX