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Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear

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Edgar Guest
Age: 77 †
Born: 1881
Born: August 20
Died: 1959
Died: August 5
Poet
Birmingham
West Midlands
Eddie Guest
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Counsel
Hospitality
Confusing
Leadership
Fine
Example
Clear
Always

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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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Don't give up, what've you do eyes front, head high to the finish. See it through!
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There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, the dangers that await to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it just start to sing as you tackle the thing that cannot be done, and you'll do it.
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Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.
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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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There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.
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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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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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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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It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.
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Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That maybe it couldn't, but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.
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