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Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.
Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day
It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home
Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear
For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.
One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.
I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.
The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.
Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.
There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.
Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.
I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.
All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.
Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.
I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.
The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.
Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.
And you can win, though you face the worst, if you feel that you're going to do it.
Don't give up, what've you do; eyes front, head high to the finish. See it through!
Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.
Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.
If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.
For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.
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.
You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.
It matters not what goal you seek - its secret here reposes: you've got to dig from week to week - to get results on roses.
But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.
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.
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.
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.
Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.
The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.
A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.
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.
Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.
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.
I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.
There is an education of the mind Which all require and parents only start. But there is training of a nobler kind And that's the education of the heart. Lessons that are most difficult to give Are Faith and Courage and the way to live.
