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The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.
Edgar Guest
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Edgar Guest
Age: 77 †
Born: 1881
Born: August 20
Died: 1959
Died: August 5
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Birmingham
West Midlands
Eddie Guest
Edgar A. Guest
Edgar Albert Guest
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But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.
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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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He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.
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Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit
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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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You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.
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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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Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear
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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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Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.
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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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It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home
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Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say. Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend. You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.
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Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.
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Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.
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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 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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For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.
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