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

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Edgar Guest
Age: 77 †
Born: 1881
Born: August 20
Died: 1959
Died: August 5
Poet
Birmingham
West Midlands
Eddie Guest
Edgar A. Guest
Edgar Albert Guest
Everybody
Action
Needs
Good

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Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.
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Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.
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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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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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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.
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There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.
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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.
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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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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'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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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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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?
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I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.
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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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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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It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home
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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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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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Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit
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