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• The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

  Edgar Guest

  Wish, Earth, Want

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• Don't give up, what've you do; eyes front, head high to the finish. See it through!

  Edgar Guest

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Eye

  Edgar Albert Guest, “See It Through”

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• The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

  Edgar Guest

  Men, He Man, Creeds

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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• You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.

  Edgar Guest

  Toss, Persons

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• So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show their worth. Each day shall bring its problems new. And men shall dream of mightier deeds than ever have been done before. There always shall be human needs for men to work and struggle for.

  Edgar Guest

  Dream, Struggle, Men

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• I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

  Edgar Guest

  Simple, Everyday Things, People

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• For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.

  Edgar Guest

  Needs, Action

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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• The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail At the jeers of a doubting crew, Or dare you, whether you win or fail, Strike out for a goal that's new?

  Edgar Guest

  Winning, Goal, Soul

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Things That Haven't Been Done Before”

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• You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

  Edgar Guest

  Adversity, Clothes You Wear, Despair

  Edgar Albert Guest (1926). “The Light of Faith”

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• A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.

  Edgar Guest

  New Year, Eye, Holiday

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• Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

  Edgar Guest

  Determination, Swings, Ends

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• Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit

  Edgar Guest

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Fighting

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Don't Quit”

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• Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store And the dimes are the things that he needs, And I've been to buy them in seasons before But have thought of them merely as seeds; But it flashed through my mind as I took them this time, "You purchased a miracle here for a dime."

  Edgar Guest

  Time, Men, Justice

  Edgar Albert Guest (1926). “The Light of Faith”

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• Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.

  Edgar Guest

  Family, Sweet, Sleep

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Prayer For The Home”

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• The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

  Edgar Guest

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

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• It matters not what goal you seek - its secret here reposes:
  you've got to dig from week to week - to get results on roses.

  Edgar Guest

  Goal, Rose, Secret

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day

  Edgar Guest

  Sermons

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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• Give me the end of the year an' its fun
  When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done;
  Bring all the wanderers home to the nest,
  Let me sit down with the ones I love best,
  Hear the old voices still ringin' with song,
  See the old faces unblemished by wrong,
  See the old table with all of its chairs
  An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.

  Edgar Guest

  Love, Song, Prayer

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Thanksgiving”

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• Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of words I want to be one with the blossoms and birds.

  Edgar Guest

  Nature, Bird, Care

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• And you can win, though you face the worst, if you feel that you're going to do it.

  Edgar Guest

  Military, Winning, Faces

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

  Edgar Guest

  Happiness, Men, Light

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• I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.

  Edgar Guest

  Giving Up, Winter, Doctors

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• At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime.

  Edgar Guest

  Christmas, Laughter, Children

  Edgar Albert Guest, “At Christmas”

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• You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

  Edgar Guest

  Being Yourself, Truth, Thinking

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.

  Edgar Guest

  Military, Men, Tests

  "Over Here".

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