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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
Poet
Birmingham
West Midlands
Eddie Guest
Edgar A. Guest
Edgar Albert Guest
Preachers
Creeds
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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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There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.
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Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
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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 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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He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.
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You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.
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For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.
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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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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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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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Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.
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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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Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.
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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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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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Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit
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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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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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