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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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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
People
Everyday
Figures
Happen
Simple
Happens
Take
Rhymes
Make
Rhyme
Things
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.
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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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The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.
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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 have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.
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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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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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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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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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Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.
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Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit
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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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For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.
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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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Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear
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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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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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Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
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