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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Page 85
... suffering . . . endless treatments and operations testing human courage to its limits : that had been William Henley's life for almost as far back as he could remember . " But I won't give up ! " he promised himself , smiling on his hos ...
... suffering . . . endless treatments and operations testing human courage to its limits : that had been William Henley's life for almost as far back as he could remember . " But I won't give up ! " he promised himself , smiling on his hos ...
Page 96
... suffering was summed up in these few words : " Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear . " In the morning , remembering that W. H. Hudson wrote one of his best books , Far Away and Long Ago , while ill in bed ...
... suffering was summed up in these few words : " Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear . " In the morning , remembering that W. H. Hudson wrote one of his best books , Far Away and Long Ago , while ill in bed ...
Page 98
... suffering ; I do know that the period of the paroxysm was reduced , since resistance seemed merely to prolong it . But the great reward was in the mind : in my own ability to command myself in the face of such a catastrophe ; to ...
... suffering ; I do know that the period of the paroxysm was reduced , since resistance seemed merely to prolong it . But the great reward was in the mind : in my own ability to command myself in the face of such a catastrophe ; to ...
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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