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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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I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.
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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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He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.
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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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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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You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.
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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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The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home
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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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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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Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear
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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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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 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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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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Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit
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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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