It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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  2. It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. - John Ruskin

  3. Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love... - Kahlil Gibran

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More Quotes By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  1. A weed is but an unloved flower.

  2. 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.

  3. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best.

  4. We two make banquets of the plainest fare In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measure We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

  5. A poor original is better than a good imitation.

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