Edgar A. Guest Quotes

#1. Miss me, but let me go.

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#2. It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home

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#3. I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

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#4. Obligation
They cannot ask for kindness
Or for mercy plead,
Yet cruel is our blindness
Which does not see their need,
World-over, town or city,
God trusts us with this task:
To give our love and pity
To those who cannot ask.

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#5. I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

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#6. I'm sorry for him who cannot hear what the tall trees have to say.

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#7. There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.

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#8. Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken.

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#9. It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes
You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

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#10. The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach the one way to get the goal he would reach.

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#11. I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.

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