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You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Age: 68 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 5
Died: 1919
Died: October 30
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The art of being kind is all the world needs.
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Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.
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There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.
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This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.
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