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Life Poems
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Wishing is a feeble attempt to change our circumstances. Wishing doesn't accomplish anything... except more wishing. The person who wishes improvement strongly enough to set to work on themselves is the one who will obtain results.
Wishing
Do you wish the world were better?
Let me tell you what to do.
Set a watch upon your actions,
Keep them always straight and true.
Rid your mind of selfish motives,
Let your thoughts be clean and high.
You can make a little Eden
Of the sphere you occupy.
Do you wish the world were wiser?
Well, suppose you make a start,
By accumulating wisdom
In the scrapbook of your heart;
Do not waste one page on folly;
Live to learn, and learn to live.
If you want to give men knowledge
You must get it, ere you give.
Do you wish the world were happy?
Then remember day by day
Just to scatter seeds of kindness
As you pass along the way,
For the pleasures of the many
May be ofttimes traced to one.
As the hand that plants an acorn
Shelters armies from the sun.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919)
Wilcox was an American author and popular poet, often expressing her sentiments of cheer and optimism. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion, although she did write a series of books entitled "Poems of..." which featured Cheer, Experience, Optimism, Power, Progress, Purpose, and Sentiment. Shortly before her death, her autobiography--The Worlds and I--was published.
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