Light From Many LampsA classic treasury of inspiration featuring hundreds of passages and quotations—selected from the wisdom of the ages—offering invaluable insight and guidance on the challenges of daily life. Here are not only the best of the world’s most inspiring thoughts and ideas, but the stories behind them: how they came to be written and what their impact has been on others. A storehouse of inspired and inspiring reading, it is a collection of brief, stimulating biographies as well. There are selections from John Burroughs, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare, Hippocrates, Confucius, and many others. A distillation of the greatest thoughts, ideas, and philosophies that have been handed down to us through the ages, this is a book to turn to over and over again—a book of moral, spiritual, and ethical guidance—an unfailing source of comfort and inspiration for all. |
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... centuries poets and philosophers have been telling us so in a fascinating variety of ways . " The things courage can do ! " You will read about some of these things in the pages that fol- low . Here are some of the world's most ...
... centuries poets and philosophers have been telling us so in a fascinating variety of ways . " The things courage can do ! " You will read about some of these things in the pages that fol- low . Here are some of the world's most ...
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Lillian Watson. Century after century , this old legend has survived . Whether or not the motto was invented for a ... centuries , to uncounted numbers of men and women , in every land and every conceivable situation . They have given ...
Lillian Watson. Century after century , this old legend has survived . Whether or not the motto was invented for a ... centuries , to uncounted numbers of men and women , in every land and every conceivable situation . They have given ...
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... century is the bloodiest century in history , but we can yet retrieve it . The last half of the century could produce a world- wide flowering of the human spirit such as we have not known since the Renaissance - or , more accurately ...
... century is the bloodiest century in history , but we can yet retrieve it . The last half of the century could produce a world- wide flowering of the human spirit such as we have not known since the Renaissance - or , more accurately ...
Contents
Happiness The Enjoyment of Living | 1 |
JOHN BURROUGHS The secret of happiness is something to do | 3 |
SENECA True happiness is to rest satisfied with what we have | 8 |
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