Light From Many LampsSimon and Schuster, 15/01/1988 - 352 من الصفحات A 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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المحتوى
The secret of happiness is something to do | 3 |
My faith in God is complete so I | 5 |
Let me live by the side of the road | 6 |
To find happiness we must seek for it in | 11 |
How essential it is to be able to live | 19 |
PART | 31 |
Lead kindly Light The night | 39 |
So by my woes to | 45 |
Build thee more stately mansions | 162 |
The divinity that shapes our ends is in our | 169 |
I will lead my life and practice my art in uprightness | 180 |
Faith hope and love these threeand the greatest | 186 |
What you do not wish done to yourself do not do | 193 |
With malice toward none with charity | 203 |
PART SEVEN | 213 |
You want to gain emotional poise? | 219 |
I hope to see my Pilot face to face | 53 |
Humbly we prayed for food | 62 |
Without Divine assistance I cannot succeed | 68 |
This too shall pass away | 74 |
I am the master of my fate | 85 |
I would no longer resist and struggle I | 95 |
Goodbye I am not at all afraid | 104 |
tained and soothed by an unfaltering trust | 108 |
I wish to take from every grave its fear | 116 |
PART FOUR | 133 |
You wake up in the morning and lo your | 142 |
We must do the best we can with | 153 |
I rave no more gainst Time or Fate | 227 |
PART EIGHT | 239 |
At the end only two things really matter to | 248 |
Old age is the consummation of life | 261 |
The shadows of evening lengther about | 267 |
PART | 279 |
The age in which we live can become | 287 |
Our thinking in the future must be world | 297 |
The only limit to our realization | 309 |
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