Edgar Guest
Edgar Guest
Edgar Albert Guestwas a prolific English-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 August 1881
CountryUnited States of America
military men tests
The proof of a man is the danger test, It shows him up at his worst, or his best.
home december tact
Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
leadership confusing example
Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear
toss persons
You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.
take-a-chance defeated accomplish
If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.
happiness men light
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.
struggle want able
But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.
love laughing doe
All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.
way wasting-time wealth
Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say. Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend. You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.
dream struggle men
So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show their worth. Each day shall bring its problems new. And men shall dream of mightier deeds than ever have been done before. There always shall be human needs for men to work and struggle for.
children years jewels
Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.
wisdom knowledge sleep
Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.
past world way
The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.
risk done coats
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, the dangers that await to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it; just start to sing as you tackle the thing that "cannot be done," and you'll do it.