- Tomorrow--there's no day so fair,
- It knows no sorrow;
- A day that banishes despair,
- Joy rules tomorrow.
- There's no disgrace in failing, lad,
- Though friends and foes deride;
- In fact, a failure's not so bad
- As never having tried.
- The happy man is he who turns his soul
- Unto the light of joys that he can find;
- And pays each day its just demand of toll,
- But shuts the future troubles from his mind.
EDGAR GUEST, "The Present"
- Determination is the thing
- On which you can depend.
- It plods along without a swing,
- But gets there in the end.
Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.
A fool and his money are soon parted, but it is remarkable how many fools have money to part from.
- Pride goes before a fall, they say,
- And yet we often find,
- The folks who throw all pride away
- Most often fall behind.
- Ah, the mighty men who conquer,
- And the men whose words we drink,
- Are the men who quit the jangle,
- Quit the turmoil and the wrangle
- Of the world, and turn their faces
- To secluded, silent places,
- Where in solitude they think.
All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.
- Troubles loom up big when they're ahead,
- And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
EDGAR GUEST, "The Present"
Many a man can make a success of everything but himself.
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