Edgar Guest Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Edgar Guest

  Nature, Bird, Care

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• Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

  Edgar Guest

  Children, Jewels, Years

  Edgar Albert Guest, “The Children”

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• A feller's glad to be a friend, Out fishin'. A helpin' hand he'll always lend, Out fishin' The brotherhood of rod and line An' sky an' stream is always fine; Men come real close to God's design, Out fishin'. A feller isn't plotting schemes, Out fishin'. He's only busy with his dreams, Out fishin' His livery is a coat of tan; His creed, to do the best he can; A feller's always mostly man Out fishin'.

  Edgar Guest

  Dream, Real, Men

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Out Fishin'”

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• 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

  Christmas, Laughter, Children

  Edgar Albert Guest, “At Christmas”

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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.

  Edgar Guest

  Done, Coats, Firsts

  Edgar Albert Guest (1921*). “Poems: A Souvenir”

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• There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul
  Like a day on a stream,
  Back on the banks of the old fishing hole
  Where a fellow can dream.
  There's nothing so good for a man as to flee
  From the city and lie
  Full length in the shade of a whispering tree
  And gaze at the sky.
  . . . .
  It is good for the world that men hunger to go
  To the banks of a stream,
  And weary of sham and of pomp and of show
  They have somewhere to dream.
  For this life would be dreary and sordid and base
  Did they not now and then
  Seek refreshment and calm in God's wide, open space
  And come back to be men.

  Edgar Guest

  Dream, Lying, Men

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• All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.

  Edgar Guest

  Love, Laughing, Doe

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• I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

  Edgar Guest

  Shopping, World, Rounds

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• I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

  Edgar Guest

  Eye, Looks, Want

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Myself”

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• Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

  Edgar Guest

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Sleep

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.

  Edgar Guest

  Joy, Sorrow, Despair

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• Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.

  Edgar Guest

  Home, December, Tact

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• For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

  Edgar Guest

  Men, Age, Three

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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.

  Edgar Guest

  Struggle, Able, Looks

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• Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear

  Edgar Guest

  Leadership, Confusing, Example

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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• Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found real greatness here below. Who guards his post, no matter where, believing God must need him there, Although but lowly toil it be, has risen to nobility. For great and low there's just one test, 'tis that each man shall do his best, Who works with all the strength he can, shall never die in debt to man.

  Edgar Guest

  Real, Believe, Greatness

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home

  Edgar Guest

  Home, House

  "Home" l. 1 (1916)

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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.

  Edgar Guest

  Past, Generations, World

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