Edgar Guest Quotes

Keep your dreams, for in them lies joy denied to men grown wise.
Edgar Guest

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see
Men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.
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To do my best, and let that stand
The record of my brain and hand...
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You'll be richer in the end
Than a prince, if you're a friend.
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The best and the worst of you gleaming in all that you say and do,
And the ting that counts isn't money, or glory, or power, but YOU!
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye. But somehow, as day always follows the night,
most of our troubles work out all right.
Edgar Guest

At Christmas
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here;
Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime
Edgar Guest

You are the person who has to decide.
Whether you'll do it or toss it aside...
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The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.
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.
Edgar Guest

Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That "cannot be done," and you'll do it.
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It matters not what goal you seek. Its secret here reposes: you've got to dig from week to week - to get Results or Roses.
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Things mostly happen for the best.
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When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face.
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I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me.
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And the thing that counts isn't money, or glory or power, but you!
Edgar Guest

Whatever happens, I want to be
Self-respecting and conscience free.
Edgar Guest