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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... fear . Here in this world , where life and death are equal kings , all should be brave enough to meet what all the dead have met . The future has been filled with fear , stained and polluted by the heartless past . From the wondrous ...
... fear . Here in this world , where life and death are equal kings , all should be brave enough to meet what all the dead have met . The future has been filled with fear , stained and polluted by the heartless past . From the wondrous ...
Page 129
... fear is fear itself - nameless , unreasoning , unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance .经济 There was an electric quality to his words , to his voice . All over the country people relaxed as ...
... fear is fear itself - nameless , unreasoning , unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance .经济 There was an electric quality to his words , to his voice . All over the country people relaxed as ...
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... fear is fear itself . These unforget- table words spoken by Franklin D. Roosevelt at his first inaugura- tion , giving courage to the nation when it stood at the brink of panic and disaster , are words for all of us to remember in the ...
... fear is fear itself . These unforget- table words spoken by Franklin D. Roosevelt at his first inaugura- tion , giving courage to the nation when it stood at the brink of panic and disaster , are words for all of us to remember in the ...
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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