It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the … - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.

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

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It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.
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It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song
But the man worth while is one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong
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Lord Byron Rabindranath Tagore Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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