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Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.

Edgar Guest

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Edgar Guest
Age: 77 †
Born: 1881
Born: August 20
Died: 1959
Died: August 5
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Birmingham
West Midlands
Eddie Guest
Edgar A. Guest
Edgar Albert Guest
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Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.
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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.
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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.
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Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
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You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.
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There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.
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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.
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Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.
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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.
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Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that - At least no one ever has done it But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew, he'd begun it.
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The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.
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Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit
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You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.
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I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
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Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.
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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.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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Don't give up, what've you do eyes front, head high to the finish. See it through!
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But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.
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