To possess character is to be useful, and to be useful is to be independent, and to be useful and independent, is to be happy, even in the midst of s… - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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To possess character is to be useful, and to be useful is to be independent, and to be useful and independent, is to be happy, even in the midst of sorrow; for sorrow is not necessarily unhappiness.

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About Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (5 November 1850 – 30 October 1919) was an American poet.

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