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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... once he was no longer old and tired ! All at once he was no longer sad and burdened , no longer discouraged ! Words sang through his mind ; and he put them down on paper ; and in less than an hour he had written one of the most ...
... once he was no longer old and tired ! All at once he was no longer sad and burdened , no longer discouraged ! Words sang through his mind ; and he put them down on paper ; and in less than an hour he had written one of the most ...
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... once had known . Now , after a month's convalescence , he was returning to Eng- land . He was still weak from his long illness , still in a torment of doubt about the whole framework of his faith . In spite of him- self , his thoughts ...
... once had known . Now , after a month's convalescence , he was returning to Eng- land . He was still weak from his long illness , still in a torment of doubt about the whole framework of his faith . In spite of him- self , his thoughts ...
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... once , at the height of her career , received more mail than anyone else in the world . Two things were at once apparent : people admired Mary Pick- ford as much for her courage and gallant spirit as for her fabulous career in pictures ...
... once , at the height of her career , received more mail than anyone else in the world . Two things were at once apparent : people admired Mary Pick- ford as much for her courage and gallant spirit as for her fabulous career in pictures ...
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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