Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone

1. People prefer cheerfulness in others. A person who is cheerful will have company, but someone who is gloomy will often be alone. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, a poet of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is the author of this saying.

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Joyce claimed authorship of a poem published in 1885 that included the familiar lines: “Laugh and the world laughs with you/ Weep and you weep alone.”

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There’s the writer John A. Joyce, whose monument is covered with his own aphorisms, including “Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone” and “The Prince and the Peasant/ The Preacher and Slave / Are equal at last / In the dust of the grave.”

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Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, It has trouble enough of its own.

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"Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone," is one of the truest things that Ella Wheeler Wilcox ever said.

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Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

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