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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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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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Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
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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.
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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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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear
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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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Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.
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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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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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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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The lectures you deliver may be wise and true, But I'd rather get my lessons by observing what you do. I may not understand the high advise you like to give, But there's no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.
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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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Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.
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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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Don't give up, what've you do eyes front, head high to the finish. See it through!
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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.
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The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.
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It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home
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