There's one sad truth in life I've found while journeying e… - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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There's one sad truth in life I've found while journeying east and west — the only folks we really wound are those we love the most. We flatter those we scarcely know; we please the fleeting guest, and deal full many a thoughtless blow to those who love us best.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

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

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

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So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind
Is all this sad world needs.

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

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