73 Quotes by Edgar Guest

For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.

Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

And you can win, though you face the worst, if you feel that you're going to do it.

Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime.

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.