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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... look up suddenly from hard work you will see her , but if you look too long she fades sorrowfully away . There is something fine in hard physical labor . . . . One actually stops thinking . I often work long without any thought whatever ...
... look up suddenly from hard work you will see her , but if you look too long she fades sorrowfully away . There is something fine in hard physical labor . . . . One actually stops thinking . I often work long without any thought whatever ...
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... look inward instead of outward . They think too much about themselves instead of things outside themselves . They worry too much about what they lack - about circumstances they cannot change - about things they feel they must have or ...
... look inward instead of outward . They think too much about themselves instead of things outside themselves . They worry too much about what they lack - about circumstances they cannot change - about things they feel they must have or ...
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... look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear ; rather look to them with full hope that , as they arise , God , whose you are , will deliver you out of them . He has kept you hitherto - do you but hold fast to His dear ...
... look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear ; rather look to them with full hope that , as they arise , God , whose you are , will deliver you out of them . He has kept you hitherto - do you but hold fast to His dear ...
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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