“I will get all the comfort and pleasure possible out of this day, and I…” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“I will get all the comfort and pleasure possible out of this day, and I will do something to add to the measure of the world's happiness or well-being.”

Combining personal enjoyment with a commitment to contribute to others · Essay, Morning Influences

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

About Ella Wheeler Wilcox

5 November 1850–30 October 1919

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born on 5 November 1850 in Johnstown Center, Wisconsin, a rural community whose fields, seasons, family routines, and wide horizons remained central to her imaginative life. She died on 30 October 1919 at her home in Short Beach, Connecticut, only days before her sixty-ninth birthday. Between…

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