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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... feel no doubt of man's oneness with the universe . The conviction came that that rhythm was too orderly , too harmonious , too perfect to be a product of blind chance - that , there- fore , there must be purpose in the whole and that ...
... feel no doubt of man's oneness with the universe . The conviction came that that rhythm was too orderly , too harmonious , too perfect to be a product of blind chance - that , there- fore , there must be purpose in the whole and that ...
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... feel about us their arms , their sympathy , their understanding . Believe , when you are most unhappy , that there ... feeling himself so limp with misery and so empty of vitality that he is ill - suited for human contacts . And yet no ...
... feel about us their arms , their sympathy , their understanding . Believe , when you are most unhappy , that there ... feeling himself so limp with misery and so empty of vitality that he is ill - suited for human contacts . And yet no ...
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... feel we have reached the end of progress , perhaps the end of civilization . There are many who feel the future holds only darkness and despair . It is true , of course , that we are faced today with some of the most difficult and ...
... feel we have reached the end of progress , perhaps the end of civilization . There are many who feel the future holds only darkness and despair . It is true , of course , that we are faced today with some of the most difficult and ...
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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